Sunshine at Midnight (CD - 2007)

Personnel: Sunshine Anderson (background vocals); Sunshine Anderson (vocals); Walter Milsap, Flintstone (various instruments, programming); Alonzo Jackson (various instruments); Isaac Phillips (guitar); Robert Anthony (keyboards, drums); Brindin Taylor (keyboards); Candice Nelson, Mikey Dan, Taura "Aura" Jackson, Mike City, Conesha Monet, Candice Nelson "G.G." (background vocals).

Audio Mixer: Franny "Franchise" Graham.

Recording information: American Record Sutio, North Hollywood, CA; American Studio, Burbank, CA; Azura Recordings, Sherman Oaks, CA; Blakeslee Recording co., North Hollywood, CA; Durt Factory Studio, Norfolk, VA; Lair Studios, Los Angeles, CA; Mattmatix World Studios, Charlotte, NC; Sony Studios, NY, NY; Unsung Studio, Sherman Oaks, CA.

Photographer: Joanna Allen.

Sunshine Anderson is the latest in a long line of confident female R&B singers to whom self-realization is a given, and who have no problem demanding their due from their often inadequate men. Her second album, imaginatively produced with a wide range of hip, grainy sounding beats, deals with the tough realities of relationships, in songs as varied as the grittily realistic "Problems," "Switch it Up," superficially about romance gone stale but more concerned with turning a life around, and the galumphing "Trust," whose mutant beat buffers a tale of deceit. Anderson never leaves any doubt who's in control, though she can still turn on the erotic softness in silk-sheet jams like "Force of Nature." minimize