Ken Tucker
speaker
453 appearances
27 recordings
1 series
first heard Nov 2024
last heard 17 Sep
Ken Tucker’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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James and Marie, they don't want to say the wrong thing, so they say nothing.
The music is mostly Glaspie and her acoustic guitar with an occasional puff on a harmonica.
Discrete keyboards and drums slip in here and there.
Working with producer Joe Henry, Glaspie sounds as though she's walking through the rooms of an empty house, taking in memories good and bad, assigning blame, and taking responsibility.
That line, I'm slamming doors you leave open and I'm hoping you're feeling it, oh boy, that really kills me.
Both Glaspie and the Womack sisters are women who've been put to the test by men who resist understanding their pain and their power.
They know that relationships are a lot more complicated than victim and victimizer and use their work to untangle these snarled dynamics to better understand and explain themselves to us.
The movie Sparkle follows the troubles and triumphs of a trio of singers trying to make it in the soul music world of the 1960s.
Released in 1976, Sparkle was the film debut of Irene Cara, who'd become a big star four years later in the movie Fame.
The movie was only a modest success, and what now seems most impressive about Sparkle are Curtis Mayfield's songs, as sung by Aretha Franklin.
That's Look Into Your Heart, a dreamy ballad powered by Aretha's passionate singing.
As is true of every song here, Franklin is holding nothing back.
She's pouring as much of herself into these Curtis Mayfield compositions as she did in the staggeringly great series of hit singles she made for Atlantic Records in the late sixties.
For me, Sparkle's High Point is Mayfield's five minute production of Hooked on Your Love.
It begins as a smooth, medium tempo tune, with Aretha's vocal gliding atop a glittering string section, and backup vocals by the Kitty Haywood singers.
Then, deeper into it, Franklin gives a demonstration of the song's title How Being Hooked, Addicted to Love Becomes an Intense Craving.
Aretha's gospel-rooted, passionate shouting turns out to be the perfect way to convey this ecstatic obsession.
Aretha gives another fantastic performance on the album's first single, a moody, sexy number called Something He Can Feel.
The song went to number one on the R and B chart, but stalled at twenty eight on the Billboard Pop Chart.
The album itself barely cracked the top twenty, and only briefly at that.
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