Woman to Woman

by Shirley Brown

Overview

Woman 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. [The album was reissued in 2011 with the addition of five bonus tracks, including a seven-minute version of Stevie Wonder's "Signed, Sealed, Delivered, I'm Yours."] ~ Wade Kergan

Product Details

Release Date:	09/13/2011
Label:	Concord / Fantasy / Stax
UPC:	0888072331778
Rank:	60230

Tracks

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 Brother
12. Ain't No Way
13. Respect
14. Rock Steady
15. Signed, Sealed, Delivered, I'm Yours

Album Credits

Performance Credits

Shirley Brown   Primary Artist,Vocals
The Charles Chalmers Singers   Primary Artist
The Memphis Symphony Orchestra   Primary Artist,Orchestra
The Memphis Horns   Primary Artist,Guest Artist,Horn
Al Jackson, Jr.   Drums
Charles Chalmers   Vocals,Vocals (Background)
Marvell Thomas   Piano,Keyboards
Andrew Love   Saxophone
Bobby Manuel   Guitar
Donald "Duck" Dunn   Bass
Lester Snell   Organ,Keyboards
Wayne Jackson   Trumpet
Ollie & the Nightingales   Vocals (Background)

Technical Credits

William Brown   Engineer,Engineer
Al Jackson, Jr.   Composer,Producer
Adam Munoz   Mixing
Stevie Wonder   Composer
George Jackson   Composer
Henderson Thigpen   Composer
Donna Weiss   Composer
Crutcher   Composer
Carolyn Franklin   Composer
Thigpen   Composer
Aretha Franklin   Composer
Greg Dempsey   Composer
Larry R. McIntosh   Composer
Carl Smith   Composer
Bettye Crutcher   Composer
Larry McIntosh   Composer
James Banks   Composer
James Mitchell   Arranger
Eddie Marion   Composer
Frederick Knight   Composer
Homer Banks   Composer
Lester Snell   Arranger
Deanie Parker   Liner Notes
Jim Stewart   Producer
McIntosh   Composer
Otis Redding   Composer
Arris Wheaton   Composer
Gregg Dempsey   Composer
Jerry Ragovoy   Composer
Sir Mack Rice   Composer