Caught Up (1974)

About this title: Taking the drama of a love triangle to logical extremes, Millie Jackson's Caught Up turns the pitfalls of tainted love into the basis for a concept album (the seeds for soul music's explicit treatment of the topic having been planted by James Carr's "Dark End of the Street"). While the "other woman's" view is taken up initially on cuts like the R&B hit "If Loving You Is Wrong I Don't Want to Be Right," the wife's plight is covered on the second half of the disc with revealing titles like "It's All Over but the Shouting." Jackson also delivers some of her patented racy commentary on the ... read more

Tracks:

1. (If Loving You Is Wrong) I Don't Want to Be Right [Banks/Hampton/Jacks]
2. The Rap [Jackson]
3. (If Loving You Is Wrong) I Don't Want to Be Right (Reprise) [Banks/Hampton/Jacks]
4. All I Want Is a Fighting Chance [Jackson/Sterling]
5. I'm Tired of Hiding [Clements/Mitchell]
6. It's All Over But the Shouting [Jackson/Sterling]
7. So Easy Going, So Hard Coming Back [Mitchell]
8. I'm Through Trying to Prove My Love to You [Womack]
9. Summer (The First Time) [Goldsboro]

Note: This is a general synopsis. Each listing is further described below.