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I've started cross-reading Tim Lawrence's massive Love Will Save The Day---A History of New York dance Culture: 1970-1979 and Vince Aletti's The Disco Files 1973-1978: New York's underground, week by week: so far, a lot of what yall are talking about here is just now being or about to be recorded, but right from the beginning, the writers and their DJ and dancing colleagues/interviewees are zooming in on album tracks re length, flow and sonic depth, with 12" singles still several years away. And yeah, Philadelphia International, Eddie Kendricks, Barry White are def seized on right away.
From the Aretha Franklin in the 1970s thread:
Let Me In Your Life was really striking, w variety unified by dynamics, detail, atmosphere: title track by Bill Withers, incl. the suddenly quiet, dead-on bridge before the resurge---will she scare him away? "Every Natural Thing" by Eddie Hinton, couple originals, with "If You Don't Think" especially appealing, rhythmically suave and flirtatious (confident!) xpost "Til You Come Back To Me" by Stevie (and others), country soul "With Pen In Hand," rocking 60s Aretha "Eight Days On The Road," rippling, hovering "A Song For You"(prob. overrecorded, but her version is the keeper)---smoking the 70s with Cornell Dupree, Pretty Purdie, Deodato, Donnie Hathaway, Joe Farrell, many others,
― dow, Sunday, 20 May 2018 19:53 (one year ago) link
xgau's take, from Rock Records of the 70s or whatever:
Aretha Franklin: Let Me in Your Life [Atlantic, 1974]
Welcome Tom and Jerry (Dowd and Wexler) back--this isn't great Aretha, but it rocks steady even on the ballads. If she doesn't get away with "The Masquerade Is Over," she does renew "A Song for You" with a fresh electric piano part and a good helping of indiscreet interpretation. Guided indiscretion, that's the key--her great gift is her voice, but her genius is her bad taste. B+ ****Fuck the grade, but he's not entirely wrong, like she does justify "What A Fool Believes" and a number of other kitschy choices over the years.
― dow, Sunday, 20 May 2018 19:58 (one year ago) link
Young, Gifted & Black is an astonishing album. Daydreaming! All The Kings Horses!
― Lou Grant, the Iranian cinema of late '70s TV (stevie), Sunday, 20 May 2018 19:59 (one year ago) link
oooh I haven't heard "If You Don't Think" in ages
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 20 May 2018 20:14 (one year ago) link
Young, Gifted & Black, Spirit In The Dark and Sparkle are the only 70s albums I have of hers. They're all fantastic. I need to check out some of the others.
― kitchen person, Sunday, 20 May 2018 20:21 (one year ago) link
― dow, Monday, 30 September 2019 22:18 (four years ago) link
one month passes...
three weeks pass...