Anatomy of a Love Song

In 2003 and 2006, Lattimore collaborated with his then-wife, singer Chanté Moore, to record the cover albums Things That Lovers Do (2003) and Uncovered/Covered (2006). While Things That Lovers Do was particularly successful, becoming the highest-charting album for both singers, Less successful on the charts, it led to a crisis of artistic identity for Lattimore. Following the conclusion of all promotion for Timeless, Lattimore decided to take time off to spent it with his son and reevaluate his next career moves. In Philadelphia, the two began working on a number of songs, which would eventually form the foundation of Lattimore's next studio album, Back 2 Cool. To release the album, he founded his own label, Sincere Soul, and entered into a partnership with EMI Records — a collaboration that, however, did not unfold as he had envisioned. eOne Music stepped in, negotiated the album out of the deal with EMI and took over distribution. With eOne on board, Lattimore decided to rework the album and give it a new title, Anatomy of a Love Song. ==Critical reception==

In his review for AllMusic, editor Andy Kellman found that "the singer is at his best when he cooks up modern smooth soul that evokes late-night, late-'70s/early-'80s R&B radio programming; a cover of a ballad written by the likes of Skip Scarborough or Leon Ware could have been inconspicuously slipped into the sequence [...] It sounds as if Lattimore felt absolutely no pressure in delivering his first widely released solo album of original material in 14 years." ==Commercial performance==

Anatomy of a Love Song debuted and peaked at number 177 on the US Billboard 200. While it marked his lowest-charting project yet, it also reached number 14 on the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums, and number three on the Top R&B Albums, and number 10 on the Independent Albums chart. ==Track listing==

Notes • denotes a co-producer ==Charts==