David Lasley: Raindance (EMI America)

MICHIGAN-BORN David Lasley sings like Robin Gibb baptized in the grace-giving waters of soul. As a songwriter his compositions often rank with the best of current pop; his work manages a trenchant tunefulness, analyzing love with a lucid unpretentiousness. As someone whose session-singing credits range from Barbra Streisand to the Ramones, his pop sense is anything but narrow.