Search - Shirley Brown :: Holding My Own

Shirley's Ahead of the Pack

cn95 | London United Kingdom | 10/21/2000

(4 out of 5 stars)

"Shirley Brown has a superb soulful voice which is mixed upfront on this new collection of sassy strutting soul and heartfelt ballads. When she wails it isn't acrobatics but is determined by the joy or pain in the lyrics. Takes a couple of spins to get into but ace tracks include the piano led ballad 'Walking or Crawling', the hands on hips defiance of 'Sweet lips, big hips'. The music is a mix of real instruments and unobtrusive programming. But most of all it is the voice, swooping, brimming with passion that shows up the bulk of the so called divas cluttering up the R'nB chart for the second raters they are."

Holding My own

HERMAN WILSON II | okinawa japan | 12/13/2000

(5 out of 5 stars)

"This is an awesome album. Her best work in a long time.Through the storm dedicated to the late Johnnie Taylor is very soulful.Shirley brown has one of the best voices in the blues industry and she prove it on this masterpiece of an album. I am a big fan of the blues and shirley brown album really is the best album for your money on the blues circuit right now buy it now."