Format Details: Jewel Case
Format Details: Single Sleeve Vinyl Album
Release Date: 31 July 2006
Label: Southbound
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 029667020022
Release Date: 27 April 2018
Label: Southbound
Packaging Type: Slip Sleeve (CD or Vinyl)
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 029667007313
Description
'Twas not so many years ago that music lovers didn't have to wait three years or more for their favourite artists to release follow-ups to their previous albums. It didn't matter whether you were the Beatles or Mantovani, when you signed your record deal it usually called for the delivery of at least two albums per year, if not more. Amazingly, this level of enforced activity actually used to inspire artists to work hard at their craft, and to produce fantastic, individualistic long players that almost always upheld the standards of what went before. Soul artists, in particular, always had a 'hard row to hoe' in this respect. For example, discounting 'Hits' compilations but including live sets and no less than three collaborations with Diana Ross and the Supremes, the Temptations, for example, released 12 albums of new recordings between May 1968 and August 1970, including their three psych-soul groundbreakers "Cloud Nine"�, "Puzzle People"� and "Psychedelic Shack"�. Of course, the Temps had Motown's staff of writers at their disposal, and did not have to do anything other than sing what they were given. But it was seldom easier for self-contained, 'do it all' artists. Picking just a few at random from Billboard's "Top Rhythm & Blues Albums 1965-1998"�, Barry White, for instance, released four long players of his own between April 1973-1975, as well as writing, arranging and conducting three all-instrumental Love Unlimited Orchestra albums during the same timeframe. Jimi Hendrix wrote and recorded "Are You Experienced"�, "Axis: Bold As Love"� and the double LP "Electric Ladyland"� in the space of about 14 months. And faced with the impressive success of "Caught Up"� during the winter of 1974/5, Millie Jackson assembled, recorded and co-produced its equally-admired follow up within nine months of the former's first showing on the Billboard R&B albums chart. STILL CAUGHT UP is the conclusion of the saga set out on its predecessor and the subject of the latest in our short series of expanded editions of selected Millie Jackson long-playing classics. Originally released on Spring in July 1975, the LP took the story a few years on from where "Caught Up"� had left it and added a further dimension to the memorable love triangle that involved Millie, as "narrator"� and "Mr & Mrs Jody"�. As before, Millie seamlessly married familiar material with some specially written songs to produce a story line that made your average Jerry Springer Show look meek and mild by comparison. Recorded in the Southern soul Mecca, Muscle Shoals, "Still Caught Up"� featured several songs that will always be associated with Millie, regardless of who cut them first - Loving Arms being perhaps the most obvious example. Although the LP did not get the chart success of "Caught Up"�, the story line and the music was no less compelling and, thirty years on, many fans profess to prefer it. For this expanded reissue, Sound Mastering's Duncan Cowell has gone back to the analogue
Description
The sequel to Millie's love triangle masterpiece "Caught Up"�, now back on vinyl. Just weeks after the release of "Caught Up"�, her best-selling concept album of 1974, soul diva Millie Jackson reconvened at Muscle Shoals Sound in Alabama with producer Brad Shapiro and the Swampers, the studio's superlative rhythm section, to begin recording the sequel. Completed on 6 June 1975 and released on the Spring label not long after, "Still Caught Up"� was somewhat overshadowed by the continuing success of "Caught Up"�, but with hindsight it stands equal with that album. Side One opens from the standpoint of nightclub singer Mrs Jody, the abandoned wife, who dedicates her passionate performance of Tom Jans' 'Loving Arms' to her wayward husband on their wedding anniversary. Mr Jody, an incorrigible womaniser, is in the audience and comes backstage, eager to rekindle their relationship. Mrs Jody reacts with glorious renditions of British songwriters Richard Kerr and Gary Osborne's 'Making The Best Of A Bad Situation' and Millie Jackson's own scathing 'The Memory Of A Wife'. As the side closes, she relents and forgives him with the smouldering 'Tell Her It's Over'. Side Two is presented from the viewpoint of Mr Jody's abandoned girlfriend. In 'Do What Makes You Satisfied' she bids Mr Jody farewell but predicts that he'll be back before long because, in the words of songwriter Phillip Mitchell, 'You Can't Stand The Thought (Of Another Man Loving Me)'. Mrs Jody then returns to bring her husband home, to which the defiant girlfriend declares that she doesn't care, as Mr Jody is just her 'Leftovers'. The suite of songs closes as it began, with a cover of a country song - Mac Davis' ballad 'I Still Love You (You Still Love Me)'. In Jackson's dramatic reading of the song, the girlfriend has become unhinged and is about to be admitted to a psychiatric hospital. Listen once more to the magnificent "Still Caught Up"�, as Millie Jackson originally intended - as a vinyl album. Ian Johnston
Tracklisting
Tracklisting
Various Artists
Various Artists
Two Tons O' Fun
The Players Association
The Mike Theodore Orchestra
The Fatback Band
The Fatback Band
The Fatback Band
Millie Jackson
Millie Jackson
Millie Jackson
Millie Jackson
Millie Jackson
Millie Jackson
Millie Jackson
