Love Notes is already Ty’s second album release. Shame on me that I’ve missed his first album since this one is a really good one. Ty captures us with his warm and rich voice and his soulful self-penned songs. The music on Love Notes hardly leaves the down- and midtempo range and evokes sweet memories of Gary Taylor or Leon Ware.
Alexander O’Neal once sang, I didn’t write the book of love but I try my best to read it everyday, and it looks like Ty has chosen this as a motto for Love Notes. Like the album’s title suggests Ty gives us a reading from the book of love and its ups and downs through his eyes. There are songs for those, who find themselves lost after love has gone, like the wonderful midtempo Life On Track with its bluesy underpinning. Love’s Messin’ With Me is a song for which Ty puts back the blues into soul/Rhythm & Blues music in a moving vocal performance. I Miss You deals with the same topic of a lover who’s gone, but the music has a more confident approach that things will work out again.
Songs like the uptempo Breathless or Falling For You describe the sensation of falling in love while the soul-jazz song Part Time Lover finds a self-confident Ty, who doesn’t want to play the second fiddle. Don’t Change and Keep On Lovin Me sees Ty pleading for his lover not to alter her feelings for him.
The album’s closer finds Ty ready to Settle Down in the shape of a beautiful ballad with some marvelous piano touches by Eric Clancy.
If Ty had changed the tracklisting a little this could’ve been a great concept album about the beginning of a love affair, the struggle of being together, the separation, the reunion and the happy ending. So it’s just a great album full of stunning soul tunes with a jazzy and sometimes bluesy feeling.

Tracklisting of Love Notes: 1. Life On Track/ 2. Don’t Change/ 3. I Miss You/ 4. Step Out Tonight/ 5. Breathless/ 6. Love’s Messin’ With Me/ 7. Keep On Lovin Me/ 8. Visions Of Love/ 9. Falling For You/ 10. Part Time Lover/ 11. Heart To Heart Forevermore/ 12. Settle Down | released 2005 Ty Causey

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