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Analogue Productions (Atlantic 75 Series)All the hallmarks of a top-notch Analogue Productions reissue are here for you to savor:Mastered directly from the original master tape by and cut at 45 RPM.Pressed at Quality Record Pressings, and housed in tip-on old style gatefold double pocket jackets with film lamination by Stoughton Printing.
Female R&B singers were expected to be forceful, big-voiced divas (like Aretha Franklin) or come-hither seductresses (like Diana Ross), but Roberta Flack had her own unique approach. Flack’s voice is vast, deep and stately – where some singers confuse frenzy with passion, she is confident, majestic and unhurried, intense in a profound yet reserved manner. Flack’s gift is to draw attention to the song, not herself. Title song “Killing Me Softly” was her second No. 1 hit, establishing her as a major modern R&B stylist.
She didn’t limit herself by genre, either – Flack gave distinctive interpretations of songs by major folk singer/songwriters Janis Ian (“Jesse”) and Leonard Cohen (“Suzanne”), and she played up-tempo tunes when it struck her fancy (“I’m A Girl”). Killing Me Softly perfectly captures Flack’s distinct aesthetic at its most fully formed point.
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