Roberta Flack - Killing Me Softly (180g 2LP 45RPM Analogue Productions)

Female R&B singers were expected to be forceful, big-voiced divas (like Aretha Franklin) or come-hither seductresses (like Diana Ross), but, as AllMusic says, Roberta Flack had her own unique approach. Flack's voice is vast, deep, and stately \u2014 where some singers confuse frenzy with passion, she is confident, majestic, and unhurried, intense in a profound yet reserved manner.\n\nThe title song of this 1973 masterful eight track album, \""Killing Me Softly,\"" was her second No. 1 hit, establishing her as a major modern R&B stylist.\n\nKilling Me Softly reached No. 3 on the Billboard Top LPs & Tape and No. 2 on the Soul LPs chart. The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) certified the album gold on August 27, 1973, and double platinum on January 30, 2006, denoting shipments of 2 million copies in the United States. It was nominated for a Grammy Award for Album of the Year, which it lost to Stevie Wonder's 1973 album Innervisions. The album's title track was e