Subtitled ‘Live at the Keystone Korner Vol.2’, Love Having You Around draws from the same weeklong engagement at the San Francisco club that produced its critically acclaimed precursor, Sophisticated Abbey: Live at the Keystone Korner. Similarly featuring nine tracks, plus the same trio of pianist Phil Wright, bassist James Leary and drummer Doug Sides (bassist Art Washington appears on the closing track only), the album opens with Lincoln's contemplative original, ‘Talkin' to the Sun’. Propelled by Sides' funky backbeat, the title-track is from Stevie Wonder's 1972 album, Music of My Mind, Wonder's music being especially beloved by Lincoln. The singer revisits ‘When Malindy Sings’, the Oscar Brown Jr song she first recorded in 1961, and gives a heartbreakingly tender piano-vocal reading of ‘Little Girl Blue’. Most powerful of all is ‘Driva Man’, the scene-setting opening track from the landmark Max Roach/Oscar Brown Jr album We Insist! on which Lincoln played an integral part, here stripped down to just voice and percussion with Sides' relentless snare hit symbolising the crack of the whip. The set also includes Lincoln's best known and most loved song, now a bona fide standard, ‘Throw It Away’. The title track of Golden Lady, an ad hoc studio session arranged in Paris whose line-up included sax player Archie Shepp, is a long, slow reverie on the Wonder classic. Other covers include Ellington's ‘Sophisticated Lady’, a song which made Lincoln cry when she first heard it sung by Billy Eckstine, and an extended take on Michel Legrand's beautiful ballad, ‘What Are You Doing the Rest of Your Life?’ Also featuring the aforementioned ‘Throw It Away’, the album closes with an extraordinarily affecting version of Lincoln's self-penned ‘Caged Bird’, here credited to Aminata Moseka, the two honorary names bestowed on Lincoln following her trip to Africa in the 1970s (Aminata in Guinea, Moseka in Zaire).