Shirley Brown
Woman To Woman
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MOG Editorial Review
Though she's something of an unsung hero among the Memphis soul greats, Shirley Brown's debut album is nothing short of a revelation, filled with stirring ballads that express true heartbreak with the best of them. If you've experienced a breakup of any sort, it's hard not to feel the power of a track like "I've Got to Go On Without You," and even the upbeat horns of a cut like "Long as You Love Me" are still tinged with pitch-perfect sadness. The real show-stealers, though, belong to Brown's tales of treachery, as the infamous title track is the perfect anthem for anyone that's ever been cheated on.
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AMG Review of Woman to Woman
Wade Kergan
All Music GuideWoman to Woman is Shirley Brown's first album and finds the singer settling in nicely to a set of slow ballads, all soaked with an ache that the singer seems born to convey. The title track is the song most associated with the singer and one of the great love-triangle melodramas of the '70s, sparking a series of answer songs, the best of which is Barbara Mason's "From His Woman to You." While not a song cycle like Millie Jackson's Caught Up, which took the cheating subgenre to its extreme, Woman to Woman does create an insular feeling, wrapping the listener in a string of indirectly related emotional contexts. From the intimacy of "So Glad to Have You" to the more direct "Between You and Me" and all points between, Woman to Woman displays all the good and bad complexities that soul singers found at the dark end of the street.
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