Women Behaving Boldly #1: Oliver & Morgan on Millie Jackson's "Caught Up" (1974)

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The Album: Millie Jackson: Caught Up (1974)

Some months ago, Oliver and Morgan kicked around the idea of celebrating women over the course of a few Heat Rocks episodes. We decided we'd package it as a series and Oliver came up with the name "Women Behaving Boldly". Gotta love it.

To kick off the series, we chose the incomparable, ahead-of-her-time, OG provocateur Mildred Virginia Jackson known professionally as MILLIE JACKSON.

Millie Jackson is the Queen of Raunchy Rap. She spent much of the seventies singing about relationships and situationships. Her lyrics and conversations in the interludes of songs talked about complicated adult dramas like infidelity and divorce. Her words were raw and honest but also grown and sexy.

1974's Caught Up, her fourth release was a concept album which dealt with the before during and aftermath of an affair told from varying perspectives. Oliver and Morgan sat down to talk about all the elements that make this album fire - a heat rock.

More on Millie Jackson

• Millie Jackson's Wikipedia Entry
• Millie Jackson's Biography
• Millie live @ The Apollo
• Millie's tribute to Otis Redding
• Phuck U Symphony

More on Caught Up

• Caught Up's Wikipedia entry
• My Favourite Album: Caught Up by Millie Jackson" (The Guardian)

Show Tracklisting (all songs from Caught Up unless indicated otherwise):

• So Easy Going, So Hard Coming Back
• Rihanna: Needed Me
• Millie Jackson: Phuck U Symphony
• Millie Jackson: All the Way Lover
• The Rap
• Millie Jackson: Gospel Truth
• The Rap
• All I Want is a Fighting Chance
• It's All Over but the Shouting
• A House for Sale
• Gladys Knight and the Pips: Neither One of Us (Wants to be the First to Say Goodbye)
• I'm Tired of Hiding
• The Rap
• The First Time
• I'm Through Trying to Prove My Love to You
• A House for Sale

Here is the Spotify playlist of as many songs as we can find on there If you're not already subscribed to Heat Rocks in Apple Podcasts, do it here!