Natalie has an outstanding voice one of the best I have ever heard and she could sing anything. But, this CD you can tell she was sick when she recorded it. As Natalie knows to sing this kind of music you have to feel it and put those emotions in the song as she did with her prior CDs. This CD she is just singing it and you can't do that with these songs. You have these incredible bands with great music and you have to out do the music, as Smoky Robinson found out when he tried to make a CD with the old classics, which was terrible. I am a big collector of classic music and I know Natalie can do much better than this, but I have a very critical ear when it comes to this kind of music.

This is not Natalie Cole at her best.
She's in pretty good voice, but her singing lacks spark and energy (maybe it has to do with her illness), but Ms. Cole has certainly sounded more lively and sassier on other recordings.
This is a throwback to those easy listening albums of the 1950s and 1960s. I was expecting Natalie to take the genre forward.
The arrangements are dull rather than lively and some of these arrangements tend to sound the same. What happened to the swing of a song "The Best Is Yet To Come?" Natalie's version is just average.
To have made Still Unforgettable truly great, Natalie Cole could have used the services of veteran producer and big band arranger Quincy Jones.

Over the past several years, we haven't seen really great pop albums that have shined. While we've heard standard records from Rod Stewart with his Great American Songbook series, and offshoots like Barry Manilow's Greatest Songs from the 50's, 60's and 70's. For Natalie Cole though, it has been 17 years after the most dominant standards album, Unforgettable With Love. Her well-acclaimed tribute album to her late father Nat king Cole is one of the most dominant albums she has ever recorded. But, many fans have been eager and anxious for a sequel to her Unforgettable record, and are hoping for a comeback from Natalie. Well, she has finally made a sequel, but it does it really work?

Natalie Cole's 2008 album, Still Unforgettable, which tends to follow-up on her success with the 1991 acclaimed album, but feels more like a mixed bag of tricks that misses the mark. Some of the songs sound well, like her newly-recorded duet with her dad, Walkin' My Baby Back Home, as well as The Best Is Yet To Come, and her rendidition of Lollipops And Roses. There are though some tracks that feel more they are weak, and lacking heart and soul like her cover of How Do You Keep The Music Playing?, a song which was much more recognized by Patti Austin & James Ingram from the 80's, and her cover of Come Rain Or Come Shine. The feeling of this record, which Natalie did produce by herself, and without the success of her work with David Foster behind Unforgettable, it just feels like it has less drive and heart, but Natalie still shows strength in her voice that still shows the shadow she is still walking under.

All in all, Natalie Cole's Still Unforgettable is not the best standards records album I've heard the past several years, but could've brought more than what listeners still want to find unforgettable. Still Unforgettable isn't as much of a must buy for music lovers as was with Unforgettable With Love, but leaves hard core Natalie Cole fans wishing for more to walk with their baby back home.

Album Cover: B

Songs: C

Price: C+

Mastering: B

Overall: C 1/2+

SIMPLY THE BEST...THE MUSICAL "CHARTS" AND HER LYRIC STYLE MAKE EACH SONG A "STANDARD". I THINK THIS ALBUM IS ONE OF HER BEST!

I purchased this album after hearing Natalie's performance of Nice and Easy on Dr. Phil recently. This is an outstanding album. An additional standout track is Coffee Time.