Who do you like?
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BOTH! It's always a contest, huh? CO-SIGN!!!!

I've been slowly pondering this one... for every thought there's a re-thought. .....and still thinking."go wiggle"

this thread would be painful for me if it were "Millie Jackson or Betty Davis" - that's a choice I cannot and will not make!

Anxiety said:

It's worth a try....which one.

StarMon said:

i like betty more as a recording artist. millie's albums can be hit-or-miss sometimes.

but live? not that i've seen any footage of betty in concert, but i've seen enough pictures and heard enough accounts to know that it must have been close to a religious experience. and of course, millie is a fantastic performer. so it's gotta be a tie in that department.

meanwhile, millie is still around keeping busy and writing and doing radio shows and things, while betty got the spark beat out of her by the industry and she's now a recluse. i gotta give millie lots of respect for hanging on through the years, and keeping her sense of humor.

Anxiety said:

I can dig that... Hey, I listen to her show sometimes when I'm in the car during her mid-day drive radio slot, remote from her ATL home. Yeah she's still doing her thang on stage. I believe Betty is doing some producing or what have you, but not @ a hectic pace.

So, are trying to evade my question , "Millie Jackson or Betty Davis"

MsLegs said:

do you have any idea how hard that is to find on cd?!

Anxiety said:

It's very hard to find this on CD. I think Supa got hold of it some how on Ebay. He rushed and got it that night after I turn him out & louse during our last Millie Jackson thread 3yrs ago.

MsLegs said:

it took me a while to find the 2 disc anthology of her studio catalog! i finally found it for a very reasonable price, used via mail order. but yeah, it's hard to find ANY millie on CD, at least in wrecka stows.

Anxiety said:

The wrecka stow is your next best bet. And of course, Wax never disappoints.
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MsLegs said:

Millie Jackson...that lady is WILD! I've been a fan of hers since the 70s.I stumbled across one of my dad's 8-track tapes.It was her 1979 album 'A Moment's Pleasure'.Been a fan ever since.She's outrageous!

Both, no way you're making me choose.
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Imagine the mayhem of a live duet?

Both but I love Millie more.

Not really. I bought it from my local record store a few years ago. It is a two CD set that includes the albums "Live and Unscensored" and "Live and Outrageous". If you can't find it at your local record store, it is available at Amazon as we speak for $22.98. The picture on the CD doesn't look like that picture though. This is what the CD set looks like and here are the track listings. Good luck.



Disc: 1
1. Keep The Home Fire Burnin'
2. Logs And Thangs
3. Put Something Down On It
4. Da Ya Think I'm Sexy?
5. Put Something Down On It (Reprise)
6. Just When I Needed You Most
7. Phuck U Symphony
8. What Am I Waiting For
9. I Still Love You (You Still Love Me)
10. All The Way Lover
11. The Soaps
12. All The Way Lover (Reprise)
13. Hold The Line
14. Be A Sweetheart
15. Didn't I (Blow Your Mind This Time)
16. Give It Up
17. A Moment's Pleasure

Disc: 2
1. If Loving You Is Wrong (I Don't Want To Be Right)
2. The Rap
3. If Loving You Is Wrong (I Don't Want To Be Right) (Reprise)
4. Never Change Lovers In The Middle Of The Night
5. Sweet Music Man
6. It Hurts So Good
7. Sweet Music Man (Reprise)
8. Passion
9. A Horse Or Mule
10. Lovers And Girlfriends
11. Don't You Ever Stop Loving Me
12. I Had To Say It
13. Still
14. Ugly Men
15. This Is It

Where are you from Anx? In my area, "Live and Unscensored/Live and Outrageous", "Feelin' Bitchy", "Caught Up/Still Caught Up", and "Anthology" are in the record stores. Millie's music is kinda bluesy and I'm in The South where there a lot of blues fans. A record store would be crazy not to stock Millie down here.

By the way, I checked Amazon again and all the albums I mentioned are available on CD as well as a few others.
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Damn. I thought you meant Betty Davis, as the two are just naturally linked (at least in my head).

Now that would be fire on fire. Somebody might lose something they'd like to keep if those two ever tangled.

Anxiety even pointed that out and my brain still made that erroneous connection, figuring that would explain the edit.

I don't know anything about Betty Wright other than she was the "Clean-up Woman".

Timmy84 said:

I'm saying

You can't take one without the other,,,,although Millie IS the Mae West of soul music and she was the one who took heat from everybody(Pimp,,,I mean Rev.Jesse Jackson being one of the opposed voices of Millie Jackson's music).

Anxiety said:

So very true.

vainandy said:

Man,I gotta order that thing!!! Thanks for the heads up.

MsLegs said:

man I haven't scene that live and outrageous one before. I love the double cd. maaan that woman was talented back then. now how old were women back then singing that type of music. like twenty, twenty five, thirty at the most and dressing outrageous.

women signers of today are really missing out.