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Artist: Millie Jackson |Label: Southbound / Ace |Format: LP |Genre: Soul/Funk/R&B | Album Condition: New | Cover Condition: Sealed
Millie Jackson
Caught Up
Southbound / AceSEW 003 – import re-issue from the UK
The return to LP format restores the framework of Millie Jacksons thematic musical saga: her perception of the affair with Mr Jody is related on Side One, while Mrs Jodys experience is related on Side Two.Millie draws a crooked line back to the mythic, habitual ladies man Jody, as outlined in 1920s and 30s blues recordings such as Joe The Grinder and Joe Grind. During the 1970s the inveterate lover man returned in Johnnie Taylors Jodys Got Your Girl And Gone, Bobby Newsomes Jody Come Back And Get Your Shoes and other songs but the character was not referenced for the entire duration of an album until Millies Caught Up.
Millie Jackson had already enjoyed considerable success, with three exceptional albums and eight R&B Top 30 singles for Spring Records, before her move from New York to Muscle Shoals Sound Studio, Alabama to record with the pre-eminent Muscle Shoals Swampers rhythm section and producer Brad Shapiro. The result was an instant soul masterpiece.
The suite of compositions that comprise Caught Up unfolds with Millies epic interpretation of Luther Ingrams 1972 hit If Loving You Is Wrong I Dont Want To Be Right. Her thrilling rendition is presented in two parts, with the dynamic, six-minute The Rap in between, outlining, in no uncertain terms, her positive and negative observations on conducting an affair with a married man. During her own funky composition All I Want Is A Fighting Chance she confronts Mrs Jody in the street and admits to having an affair with her husband. Side One closes with Millie in more reflective mood, apologising to Mr Jody for her outburst but confessing, in the words of Phillip Mitchells stunning song, Im Tired Of Hiding.
Side Two opens with Mrs Jody informing her spouse Its All Over But The Shouting another fine, driving Millie Jackson composition. The Phillip Mitchell-penned ballad Its Easy Going marks an attempt at reconciliation before an incredible cover of Bobby Womacks Im Through Trying To Prove My Love To You admits defeat.The album closes with Mrs Jody wistfully recalling her first encounter with her husband, in Millies remarkable transformation of Bobby Goldsboros 1973 smash Summer (The First Time).
You can now listen again to this landmark concept album as Millie Jackson intended on vinyl. —Ian Johnston
Includes:
If Loving You is Wrong I Don’t Want To Be Right
The Rap
If Loving You is Wrong I Don’t Want To Be Right (reprise)
All I Want is a Fighting Chance
I’m Tired of Hiding
It’s All Over But the Shouting
It’s Easy Going
I’m Through Trying to Prove My Love to You
Summer (The First Time)
NEW SEALED import LP
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