One of the many standouts on his sophomore J Records album, "They Said You Needed Me" poses an interesting question and reflects Luther's richness of experience. He expounds on the song's carefully-crafted lyric: "So, you've rejected me and all of your friends are telling me that you're depressed but you'd never admit it. You're telling me I've been kicked to the curb and yet you haven't slept for a week. Please! It's like I don't believe you, I don't think you are really over me at all!" The more tender, intimate side of love is evident in Luther's choice to update the 1978 Roberta Flack/Donny Hathaway classic, "The Closer I Get To You". Given the kind of Vandross reading that has turned other songs he's covered - like Dionne Warwick's "A House Is Not A Home" and The Carpenters' "Superstar" - into mandatory pieces in his 'live' performance repertoire, Luther's heartfelt version of the song with Destiny's Child's Beyonce Knowles is pure magic. "I chose the song with Beyonce in mind and she said 'yes,' when I asked her to record it with me," he recalls. "We flipped it - I'm singing Roberta's part and Beyonce is singing the Donny Hathaway part - and working with her was one of the most pleasant experiences I've had. She worked real hard and I was impressed with her musicality: singing with her was like singing with one of the women I grew up listening to. And, of course, Nat Adderley Jr. did a spectangular job on the arrangement and production!" "The ideas for collaborations on DANCE WITH MY FATHER were totally mine. All the phone calls were made by me," Luther says. "I'm pretty good at musical casting and I knew who was right for each song."