{"id":4821,"date":"2014-07-01T12:53:48","date_gmt":"2014-07-01T17:53:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/?p=4821"},"modified":"2014-07-01T12:53:48","modified_gmt":"2014-07-01T17:53:48","slug":"barbara-lynn-im-a-good-woman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/?p=4821","title":{"rendered":"Barbara Lynn – I’m a Good Woman"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Miss Barbara Lynn<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"Example\" <\/strong><\/p>\n

Listen\/Download Barbara Lynn – I’m a Good Woman <\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Greetings all<\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n

Hows about traversing the middle of the week\u00a0with something deep?<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

\u2018I\u2019m a Good Woman\u2019 by Barbara Lynn<\/strong> is a popular side with DJs and collectors, and as a result it can be a little pricey and there\u2019s a fair amount of competition when copies show up for sale.<\/p>\n

This can be attributed 100 percent to the undeniable bad-ass-ness<\/em> of the song\/performance.<\/p>\n

Barbara Lynn is one of the most underrated performers of the 60s and 70s, having had her biggest hit (\u2018You\u2019ll Lose a Good Thing\u2019) right out of the gate in 1962.<\/p>\n

She wrote and recorded \u2018I\u2019m a Good Woman\u2019 for the Tribe label in 1966,and despite its brilliance, it went exactly nowhere.<\/p>\n

This might have something to do with the fact that \u2018I\u2019m a Good Woman\u2019is something of a slow burner\/builder.<\/p>\n

It opens with a spellbinding (largely) a capella segment, and then starts stomping right away.<\/p>\n

The rhythm section and the horns hit hard, and get harder as the song moves on.<\/p>\n

I like to compare \u2018I\u2019m a Good Woman\u2019 to a record like Tommy Tucker\u2019s<\/strong> \u2018Long Tall Shorty\u2019, which starts off like a blues shuffle and turns into a buffalo stampede before you know it.<\/p>\n

\u2018I\u2019m a Good Woman\u2019 is a solid dancer, which is why the DJs sweat it so hard.<\/p>\n

All of that, and the fact that the song is a stone solid feminist statement.<\/p>\n

Does it get any more plain spoken than \u2018I\u2019m a good woman, so don\u2019t treat me like dirt!\u2019 ?<\/em><\/p>\n

No, it does not.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2018I\u2019m a Good Woman\u2019 has been covered over the years by artists like Cold Blood (very nice reading by Lydia Pense<\/strong>) and El Chicano<\/strong>, and there\u2019s a very tasty modern cover by a UK group called Hannah Williams and the Tastemakers<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n

It is a killer.<\/p>\n

Dig it and I\u2019ll see you on Friday.<\/p>\n

Keep the faith<\/strong><\/p>\n

Larry<\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n

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PS Head over to Iron Leg too.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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