From Allmusic:
In 1990, the success of Johnny Gill's ballad \"My, My, My\" showed Motown that you could still sell 1970s-minded soul music to a young urban contemporary audience -- depending on how you went about it, of course. That 1990 smash combined a strong Teddy Pendergrass influence with a high-tech urban production style, and Motown was also thinking in soul-meets-urban terms when it released Yours Truly's debut album, Truly Yours, the following year. Comparable to LeVert and After 7, this male vocal trio is a perfect example of what R&B critic Nelson George calls \"retro nuevo\" -- Truly Yours has one foot in early-'90s urban contemporary and the other in classic '70s soul. The production style is high-tech and 1991-sounding, and Yours Truly usually manages to avoid sounding too dated. Nonetheless, this collection of romantic ballads and slow jams indicates that Ricky Jones, Terence De Vaughn Brooks, and Jerry L. Brinson, Jr. -- the three vocalists who comprise Yours Truly -- have spent a lot of time listening to 1970s Northern soul groups like the O'Jays, the Dramatics, the Chi-Lites, and Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes. Not exceptional but definitely solid and pleasing, Truly Yours had the makings of a hit and should have done well. But, for whatever reason, the CD fell through the cracks and received very little attention. Truly Yours went out of print not long after it was released, although it is worth searching for if you like a lot of soul in your urban contemporary.
