Millie Jackson - The Memory of a wife

Still Caught Up returned listeners to the torrid backbiting and constant recriminations of Millie Jackson's blockbuster Caught Up, and though it didn't compare favorably, it was easily good enough to make it better than her average full-length. Though not live, it has a stagey sound, with frequent monologues, nice testifying backup vocals, an odd breakout of audience applause, and the kind of loose-limbed horn section heard during Elvis' Las Vegas appearances. Jackson sounds resigned at the beginning ("Making the Best of a Bad Situation"), but by the end of side one, she's getting just as unhinged as on Caught Up ("The Memory of a Wife") and talking just as tough ("Tell Her It's Over"). It must have grown difficult to select appropriate material for another record of this kind, but she closes it out in style with Mac Davis' "I Still Love You (You Still Love Me)."

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• Millie Jackson
• Memory of a wife
• R&B
• Soul
• Deep Soul
• Southern Soul

[samcooke67]

brilliant record.. i want the caught up album and the still caught up album... its amazing how it tells a story from start to end

[qsbird]

@samcooke67 I have those albums if you want them, just send me a message

[Gospelwatcher]

sing like a bitchy angel.

[ccsilver51]

the best story telling lp ever



[butelezi00roman]

@Micky2009ish u must be talking abt another song cuz the song i wanted is by her and i found it--thx anyway

[Micky2009ish]

@butelezi00roman that's not Millie Jackson who sing WOMAN TO WOMAN

[butelezi00roman]

@qsbird could u plz post more esp the song where she is calling another woman on the phone --mrs jones about finding her phone # 13 or 14 times on her phone bill. THX

[chipande94]

The ATM speaks out...........Assistant To Madam (ATM)