Go Girl!: Soul Sisters Tellin' It Like It Is (1996)

About this title: The concept here is made plain in the title: tough female soul singers, singing about the hard bumps of romance with toughness and independence. If that's what you want, there's plenty of straight talking here. If you're primarily after good late-'60s/early-'70s soul, it delivers that as well. Aside from Aretha Franklin's "Respect," none of these were big pop hits; many of them didn't even make a splash in the R&B world. It's a good mix of lesser-known tracks by Ann Peebles, Irma Thomas, Betty Wright, and Mable John with ones by singers who are hardly known at all outside of soul aficionados, ... read more

Tracks:

1. I'm Gonna Make It [Tyrone]
2. Respect [Redding]
3. You Did Me Wrong (You Used Me for a Good Thing) [Griffith/Kelley/Nyx]
4. I'll Get Along [Peebles/Smith/Jones]
5. Your Good Thing (Is About to End) [Porter/Hayes]
6. Dirty Man [Miller]
7. Seven Days [Glasser]
8. You're the Dog (But I Do All the Barking Myself) [Williams/Bonds/Whit]
9. Wedlock Is a Padlock [Johnson/Bond/Perry]
10. Soul Girl [Hayes/Porter]
11. Women's Love Rights [Weatherspoon/Bond]
12. The Day I Found Myself [Dunbar/Wayne/Johnso]
13. Your Turn to Cry [Gerald/Price/Simon]
14. Girls Can't Do What the Guys Do [Clarke/Reid]
15. Think (About It) [Brown]
16. Where Would You Be Today [Cobb/McCoy]
17. Needle in a Haystack [Stevenson/Whitfield]
18. Do Right Woman, Do Right Man [Penn/Moman]

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