Blog: PopMatters

The song "Woman to Woman" remains a footnote - a perpetual inclusion on lists of "one-hit wonders" from the 1970s. Shirley Brown certainly could have done worse, but she deserved better. This album, one of the last Stax releases to make any impact before the venerable label went belly up a short time later, produced a No. 1 hit ("Woman to Woman", two weeks at the top of the Billboard R&B charts) but otherwise failed to register much on the radar. This is a shame, since it was (and remains) a top shelf soul record from one of the [...]