Where I'm Coming From

Album Notes & Community Reviews

As the final album recorded under his existing Motown contract, this record represents a pivotal creative transition for the soul icon, featuring his first total control over composition and production. The music displays a newly found, mature sophistication—blending pop-soul structures with lush, baroque-pop arrangements and introspective, conscious lyricism. It served as the crucial, experimental blueprint for the creative explosion that would follow in his subsequent classic-era masterpieces.