“There is something special about the lyrics of Dear Man, and the delivery of those words. Something haunting and sweet, like my favorite Sade tunes.

The original version of Dear Man is the kind of song that is to be played when we need to be thoughtful, or when in the right DJ’s hands when we need to wine ‘pon the sexy gyal we enta’d duh fete wit.

Dear Man featuring Dee Ferguson (click to play)

While the remix, though in broken soul, is a bit more glossy and loungy. A song for red wine and food; something to enjoy in the car or sitting at the bar.

These are the investments we make into the music.

Those words, those thoughts are amazing, simple and poetic.

Dear Man, I miss you / this time on purpose. used a pile of words / and, yet, not said enough.

There is something honest in the words that Dee Ferguson puts in my mind. I feel as though she has captured a moment in her life and now I am transported to it. I can see him. I can see her. I can see the feelings.

Since we’ve created this song, I have felt compelled to play Dear Man as a way to simmer in a mood. Have problems with love, this song jumps into my head like a Donny Hathaway or Laura Nyro song does. I am not saying Dee wrote the next big heartbreak tune.

But I think it is song that will help another love who has lost the lover; might lose their lover; or, needs to lose their lover…

Dear Man is soul food. Both versions are pushed by her singing and writing. She is not lamenting. She is not crying. She is telling him the truth, in caring but careful words. “Where are you now? Where are you now? dear man…”

-Tai (Vicelounge)