Quiet Fire (Roberta Flack album)

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This article is about the album by Roberta Flack. For the album by George Cables, see Quiet Fire (George Cables album).
Quiet Fire
Studio album by
Roberta Flack
ReleasedNovember 1971
Recorded1971
Studio
GenreSoul, gospel[1]
Length41:37
LabelAtlantic
ProducerJoel Dorn
Roberta Flack chronology
Chapter Two
(1970) 		Quiet Fire
(1971) 		Roberta Flack & Donny Hathaway
(1972)
Singles from Quiet Fire
  1. "Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow / Go Up Moses"
    Released: December 7, 1971

Quiet Fire is the third

Hot 100.[3]

At the 15th Annual Grammy Awards, the album secured Roberta Flack a nomination for Best Pop Vocal Performance, Female. However, the award went to Helen Reddy for I Am Woman.

Critical reception

In a contemporary review for The Village Voice, Robert Christgau gave Quiet Fire a "C", writing that Flack occasionally "sounds kind, intelligent, and very likable, but she often exhibits the gratuitous gentility you'd expect of anyone who said 'between you and I.'"[4] In a retrospective review, The Rolling Stone Album Guide (1992) gave it two out of five stars and claimed it "barely sparks at all".[5] AllMusic's Stephen Cook was more enthusiastic, giving it four-and-a-half out of five stars and calling it "one of Flack's best". He believed its "varied mix all comes off sounding seamless" while writing: "Forgoing the full-throttled delivery of, say, Aretha Franklin, Flack translates the pathos of gospel expression into measured intensity and sighing, elongated phrases."[1]

Track listing

No.TitleWriter(s)Producer(s)Length
1."Go up Moses"Flack,
Sweet Bitter Love"
Van McCoyJoel Dorn6:06

Personnel

Musicians

Production

  • Rod Bristow – photography
  • Deodato – horn arrangements, string arrangements
  • Joel Dorn – producer
  • William Eaton – horn arrangements, string arrangements
  • Ira Friedlander – cover design
  • Lewis Hahn – engineer
  • Bruce Tergesen – engineer

Charts

Chart (1972) Peak
position[3]
U.S.
Jazz LPs
 5
U.S. Billboard Soul LPs 4
U.S. Billboard Top LPs & Tape 18

References

  1. ^
    Rovi Corporation
    . Retrieved November 30, 2012.
  2. ^ "Roberta Flack - Quiet Fire CD Album". CD Universe. Muze. Retrieved November 30, 2012.
  3. ^ a b "Quiet Fire - Roberta Flack : Awards". Allmusic. Rovi Corporation. Retrieved November 30, 2012.
  4. ^ Christgau, Robert (January 20, 1972). "Consumer Guide (23)". The Village Voice. New York. Retrieved November 30, 2012.
  5. ISBN 0679737294.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link
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