DESCRIPTION:
Woman to Woman is one of the milestones in the history of southern soul music. Starting with a dramatic rap, it tells of a woman determined to hold on to her man and tell it over the phone to her rival, too, and it touches a subject people still today strongly respond to. Although the story was intriguing enough, it was, however, the magnificent vocal performance by Shirley Brown, which lifted this record to a level of its own.

Shirley is anything but a one-hit wonder, but an icon, a superb southern soul songstress with a strong gospel overtone in her interpretation. Fans of more moderate and mainstream soul may find her wailing too extreme, too overblown and twisty, and vocally she is said to be too close to Aretha Franklin for comfort, but those, who have loyally followed her recording career during the past thirty-five years, know better...