Barbara Lynn Ozen, born in 1942, has been a songwriter, guitarist, and rhythm & blues singer for over 50 years. While she may not have attained the commercial success of some of her contemporaries, she has produced a catalogue of music that is equal to the best of her era. <\/p>\n
Her biggest hit came during the summer of 1962 when \u201cYou\u2019ll Lose A Good Thing\u201d topped the R&B charts and made its way into the top ten of the pop charts. \u00a0By 1967, she was signed to the Atlantic label. During the next six years, she recorded one album and released a number of singles for the label. Real Gone Music has now released the 25 tracks she recorded for the label under the appropriate title The Complete Atlantic Recordings. <\/i><\/p>\n
Ozen has been signed to a lot labels during her career, but Atlantic was just about a perfect match as she recorded some of the grittiest and down-to-earth rhythm and blues of her career.\u00a0 While she did not achieve anywhere near the success of label-mate Aretha Franklin, her style and sound was similar. <\/p>\n
Her only album for the label, Here Is Barbara Lynn, <\/i>is presented in its entirety. Brass laden tracks such as \u201cMultiplyin\u2019 Pain\u201d and \u201cSufferin\u2019 City\u201d are a soulful blast nearly a half decade later. \u201cTake Your Love And Run\u201d and \u201cWhy Can\u2019t You Love Me\u201d settle into a smooth groove and are similar to what the Motown label was releasing at the time. \u00a0Ozen\u2019s compositions have been covered by a variety of artists down through the years, including the Rolling Stones, and \u201cMix It Up Baby\u201d and \u201cUntil Then I\u2019ll Suffer\u201d are both fine examples of her writing skills.<\/p>\n
Most of the other tracks were released as singles. \u201cI\u2019m A One Woman Man\u201d is s bluesy outing, while \u201cIt Ain\u2019t \u00a0No Good To Be Good\u201d is a slow building affair. \u201c(Daddy Hot Stuff) You\u2019re Too Hot To Hold\u201d moves is a pop direction. <\/p>\n
The only previously unreleased track is her cover of \u201cSoul Deep,\u201d which became a hit for the Box Tops about a year later. <\/p>\n
Barbara Lynn is still on the road today. The Complete Atlantic Singles <\/i>looks at the brightest period of her career as it catches one of the talented, if many times a forgotten, rhythm and blues artists of the 20th<\/sup> century at the top of her game.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":32144,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"artist":[9504],"rating":[5617],"class_list":["post-43893","review","type-review","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","artist-barbara-lynn","rating-rating-b-plus"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/43893","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/review"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43893"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/43893\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"artist","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist?post=43893"},{"taxonomy":"rating","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rating?post=43893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}