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“Caught Up” was a landmark album for Millie and for black American music. She had total artistic control on this album for the first time. It was also her first album to be recorded exclusively in the town that is akin to Mecca for all devotees of Southern Soul, Muscle Shoals.
And more importantly, while it wasn’t soul music’s first ever concept album, it was inarguably the first one to look at three sides of a romantic triangle and put its main viewpoints across in such a frank and unexpurgated manner.
It may also have been the first album to spawn a hit R&B “rap” when the six minute spoken section of Millie’s killer version of (If Loving You Is Wrong) I Don’t Want To Be Right introduced the listening public to Funky Drawers and breached the R&B Top 40 when issued as a “public demand” 45 after the album reached the Top 5.
Tracklist
Spring LP 6703
1 Millie Jackson– (If Loving You Is Wrong) I Don't Want To Be Right
3:57
2 Millie Jackson– The Rap
5:52
3 Millie Jackson– (If Loving You Is Wrong) I Don't Want To Be Right (Reprise)
1:13
4 Millie Jackson– All I Want Is A Fighting Chance
2:41
5 Millie Jackson– I'm Tired Of Hiding
3:46
6 Millie Jackson– It's All Over But The Shouting
3:20
7 Millie Jackson– So Easy Going, So Hard Coming Back
3:49
8 Millie Jackson– I'm Through Trying To Prove My Love To You
5:44
9 Millie Jackson– Summer (The First Time)
5:38
Bonus Tracks - Previously Unissued
10 Millie Jackson– I'm Tired Of Hiding (Alternate "Live" Vocal)
3:51
11 Millie Jackson– I'm Through Trying To Prove My Love To You (Alternate "Live" Vocal)
4:39
12 Millie Jackson– Feel Like Making Love (Alternate "Live" Vocal)
4:31
13 The Muscle Shoals Swampers*– A House For Sale (Instrumental)
3:39