Released November 1971 Label Atlantic Release date November 1971 | Length 41:37 Artist Roberta Flack Producer Joel Dorn | |
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Recorded Atlantic Recording Studios, Regent Studios, The Hit Factory; New York City Quiet Fire
(1971) Roberta Flack & Donny Hathaway
(1972) Genres Soul music, Rhythm and blues Nominations Grammy Award for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance Similar Roberta Flack albums, Soul music albums | ||
Quiet Fire is the third studio album by American singer-songwriter Roberta Flack, released in November 1971 by Atlantic Records. It was recorded at Atlantic Recording Studios, Regent Studios, and The Hit Factory in New York City. The album peaked at number 18 on the Billboard Top LPs & Tape, and its single "Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow" charted at number 76 on the Hot 100.
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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.'" In a retrospective review, The Rolling Stone Album Guide (1992) gave it two out of five stars and claimed it "barely sparks at all". 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."
Production
Songs
1Go Up Moses5:20
2Bridge Over Troubled Water7:13
3Sunday and Sister Jones4:48