Miss Barbara Lynn

Listen/Download Barbara Lynn – I’m a Good Woman

Greetings all

Hows about traversing the middle of the week with something deep?

The record you see before you is one of those 45s that I chased for a long, long (loooong) time before I finally tackled it and tossed it into my record box.

‘I’m a Good Woman’ by Barbara Lynn is a popular side with DJs and collectors, and as a result it can be a little pricey and there’s a fair amount of competition when copies show up for sale.

This can be attributed 100 percent to the undeniable bad-ass-ness of the song/performance.

Barbara Lynn is one of the most underrated performers of the 60s and 70s, having had her biggest hit (‘You’ll Lose a Good Thing’) right out of the gate in 1962.

She wrote and recorded ‘I’m a Good Woman’ for the Tribe label in 1966,and despite its brilliance, it went exactly nowhere.

This might have something to do with the fact that ‘I’m a Good Woman’is something of a slow burner/builder.

It opens with a spellbinding (largely) a capella segment, and then starts stomping right away.

The rhythm section and the horns hit hard, and get harder as the song moves on.

I like to compare ‘I’m a Good Woman’ to a record like Tommy Tucker’s ‘Long Tall Shorty’, which starts off like a blues shuffle and turns into a buffalo stampede before you know it.

‘I’m a Good Woman’ is a solid dancer, which is why the DJs sweat it so hard.

All of that, and the fact that the song is a stone solid feminist statement.

Does it get any more plain spoken than ‘I’m a good woman, so don’t treat me like dirt!’ ?

No, it does not.

‘I’m a Good Woman’ has been covered over the years by artists like Cold Blood (very nice reading by Lydia Pense) and El Chicano, and there’s a very tasty modern cover by a UK group called Hannah Williams and the Tastemakers.

It is a killer.

Dig it and I’ll see you on Friday.

Keep the faith

Larry

 

 

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One Response to “Barbara Lynn – I’m a Good Woman”

1. Jon Goode says:

   July 1, 2014 at 2:50 pm

   It’s a biggie on the turntables over here in the UK as well. I just love the drumming, the way it drives the song and provides little flourishes that accentuate Barbara’s words.
   Never fails to get me on my feet.