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Features Disc of the day
Doris Duke
I’m A Loser
(Kent, 1969)
Breathtaking deep soul album by Georgia peach, real name Doris Curry.
Duke’s memories of 1969’s I’m A Loser, her greatest solo achievement, were, as she described them to me in 1974, pretty unsatisfying and she didn’t have a good word to say for producer Swamp Dogg. But what fantastic performances they conjured together. The second side of I’m A Loser, tracks seven to 12 here, unfold like the grittiest of kitchen sink drama as Duke sings of adultery and divorce, desolate loss and arid desertion, and in the grainy Play For Today that is I Don’t Care Anymore, descent into prostitution. “I came into the city from the Deep South when the mills shut down” she narrates from her hotel room, “I married a man who treated me like he bought me by the pound.” You will not hear soul storytelling as good – sweaty love, desperate jealousy, urgent passion, betrayal and resignation. Even better, 2005’s Kent reissue couples ...Loser with Duke’s other Swamp Dogg collaboration, 1970’s A Legend In Her Own Time, Duke’s strong, expressive voice again doing full justice to yet more gripping material. But the legend was short-lived – the financial collapse of I’m A Loser’s original label Canyon didn’t help – and Duke made as many bad choices in her solo career as her characters did in the songs. A tragic case of life imitating album title.
Geoff Brown
Posted by Danny_Eccleston at 6:00 AM GMT 01/08/2008
Further Listening
Sandra Phillips & Bette Williams – Swamp Dogg’s Southern Soul Girls (Kent, 2007)
Swamp Dogg – Blame It On The Dogg: The Swamp Dogg Anthology 1968-1978 (Kent Soul, 2008)
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