My Name Is Joe

1	My Name Is Joe (Intro) 0:46
2	Somebody Gotta Be On Top 4:11
3	Stutter 3:52
4	Table for Two 5:29
5	I Wanna Know 4:56
6	Treat Her Like a Lady 4:17
7	Get Crunk Tonight 4:17
8	5 6 3 (Joe) 4:05
9	Peep Show 4:26
10	One Life Stand 4:39
11	Black Hawk 4:13
12	I Believe in You / 'N Sync 4:57
13	So Beautiful 4:26
14	Thank God I Found You Make It Last Remix Edit 4:11

Barnes & Noble

On MY NAME IS JOE, sensational soul man Joe picks up where his last album, 1997’s ALL THAT I AM, left off. Basically, ladies, Joe wants to be your full-time lover. And with a dreamy voice that sounds like a cross between Donny Hathaway and Sam Cooke, he sure sounds like a viable candidate. But just in case his bedroom voice doesn't connect, his seduction-heavy lyrics spell things out. "Somebody Gotta Be on Top," for instance, isn’t exactly about climbing the corporate ladder to success. Meanwhile, when it comes to risqué business, Joe is willing to change his, um, missionary position for the steamy "Table For Two," which finds the singer offering to make his lady the main course ("let me eat it up, gonna start at you toes till I heat it up). With the album's thoughtful lead single "I Wanna Know," Joe's added yet another notch to his hit-making belt. But there's plenty of extra ammo here, including his duet with Mariah Carey, "Thank God I Found You," which is also included here. Like his mono-monikered peers Maxwell and D’Angelo, Joe is well on his way to becoming a household name. Tracy E. Hopkins

All Music Guide

Joe is hardly an appropriate name for a lover man -- it seems more like a moniker for a custodian than a Casanova -- but that's exactly what Joe is. He's an old-fashioned romantic soul crooner in the vein of Al Green, Marvin Gaye, D'Angelo, and, well, Gregory Abbott. He's not as ambitious as D'Angelo is, but that doesn't really matter, since he delivers the goods on his third album, My Name Is Joe. Joe never oversings or oversells a song, he just lays back and sweetly sings. There may not be much variety or many remarkable songs on the record -- "Get Crunk Tonight" stands out with its stuttering, fade-in-fade-out intro and its stylishly funky beat -- but that doesn't matter because this is essentially a mood record, and that mood is love. And it's not a bad romantic mood-setter, either, since Joe is an appealing vocalist, the production is lush without being syrupy, and the songs are all fairly strong, even if only a handful are exceptional ("Somebody Gotta Be on Top," "Treat Her Like a Lady," "Get Crunk Tonight," the N'Sync duet "I Believe in You"). And, really, that's enough, since anyone that gets hooked by a single from My Name Is Joe just wants an assurance that the album will deliver more of the same -- and it does. Stephen Thomas Erlewine