The undisputed queen of bringing smut back to soul music, Millie Jackson has announced a tasty vinyl reissue of her 1977 classic Feelin' Bitchy. While the strings and beats occasionally evoke the disco sound of the era, Millie is rougher and tougher than all that, and the album is 100% untethered soul music. Opening with the sprawling ten-minute raunchy rap soul gem All The Way Lover, the record stomps through sultry ballads and steamy soul stonkers, and takes no prisoners. - Flying Out
In the spring of 1977, Millie Jackson was in Muscle Shoals, Alabama, laying down tracks for what became Feelin’ Bitchy with co-producer Brad Shapiro. Released in August 1977, the album reached #4 and #34 in America’s Billboard’s R&B and Hot 100, going gold with over 500,000 copies sold. Jackson’s cover of If You’re Not Back In Love By Monday – already a hit for Merle Haggard in March 1977 – also reached #5 R&B and #43 in the Hot 100 in August. Although the album did not chart in the UK, Feelin’ Bitchy sold strongly to a dedicated fanbase who had voted her the #1 female singer in the Blues & Soul magazine annual poll. Jackson also performed much of the material on her sold-out UK dates in early 1978.
Feelin’ Bitchy was not only a commercial success, cementing Jackson’s no-nonsense reputation, but is now considered an all-time classic. Her rap on Benny Latimore’s All The Way Lover stretched the original out like chewing gum to 10 minutes. “Back In Love By Monday is a great song an’ that,” she told Black Echoes, “but it didn’t sell the album. All The Way Lover sold the album.” Indeed it did, but other tracks like A Little Taste Of Outside Love Lovin’ Your Good Thing Away, Cheatin’ Is’ and Feelin’ Like A Woman show that while Jackson’s tongue – front and centre on the LP cover – was always ready to hand out a lashing, it also helped her sing beautifully.
Tracklist:
1. All The Way Lover
2. Lovin' Your Good Thing Away
3. Angel In Your Arms
4. A Little Taste Of Outside Love
5. You Created A Monster
6. Cheatin' Is
7. If You're Not Back In Love By Monday
8. Feelin' Like A Woman
