Tracklisting:
1. It Ain’t No Fun
2. Long as You Love Me
3. Stay with Me Baby
4. I’ve Got to Go On Without You
5. Woman to Woman
6. So Glad to Have You
7 Passion
8. I Can’t Give You Up
9. I Need You Tonight
10. Between You and Me
11. Yes Sir, Baby
12. Ain’t No Way
13. Respect
14. Rock Steady
15. Signed, Sealed, Delivered, I’m Yours
Tracks 1-10 from Truth LP TRS-4206, 1974
Track 11 from Truth single TRA-3206, 1974
Tracks 12-14 previously unreleased in the United States
Track 15 previously unreleased
Additional information from TheSecondDisc:
The third album in this wave of Stax Remasters contains the label’s final major single. Released on the Truth imprint, Shirley Brown’s 1974 album Woman to Woman contained that title song, which reportedly sold a million copies in its first eight weeks. Albert King discovered Brown when she was a mere 14, taking her on the road for nine years as part of his ensemble. Her first recording were made in 1972 for the small Abet label, but the King association provided her entrée to the Stax family. The East St. Louis native came to Stax by way of Albert King, who’d discovered her when she was all of 14. James Banks, Eddie Marion, and Henderson Thigpen provided her with the song that would become her signature, “Woman to Woman.” It went straight to the top on the R&B chart and dented the pop charts at No. 22. Songs by Fredrick Knight, Sir Mack Rice, and the recently-departed, much-missed Jerry Ragovoy round out the original album. The new edition contains five bonus tracks by a truly distinguished group of songwriters including Carolyn Franklin and her sister Aretha Franklin, Otis Redding and Stevie Wonder. Unfortunately “Woman to Woman” couldn’t save Stax, although its huge success helped postpone the inevitable for at least a few months’ time. Stax filed for involuntary Chapter 11 bankruptcy in 1975. After Stax’s closure, Brown signed to Arista. With Stax’s co-founder Jim Stewart and Bettye Crutcher producing, she reached No. 15 with “Blessed is the Woman (With a Man Like Mine)” and has recently recorded for the Malaco label.
Woman to Woman may have marked the last great album of the original Stax period, but its reissue is a reminder of the lasting strength of the company’s music even in the most trying of times. All three titles are due in stores on September 13 from Stax/Concord.
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