Candi Staton - Stand By Your ManReleased in August 1970, as well as detonating hard and reaching #4 in the US R&B charts, Stand By Your Man became a break through single for Candi Staton, spending 14 weeks in the Billboard Hot 100, peaking at number 24. When it came to the follow up to Stand By Your Man, the formula was repeated with Candi taking on another country song She Called Me Baby. This song was written by country singer Harlan Howard and appeared on Harlan Howard Sings

pared-back sounds of ‰Û÷Seven Swans‰۪ and

A defining album of the 90s

[resulting in] two changes to the album that have been bugging me for 25 years

that same awareness of tragedy and loneliness is made palatable by the album’s exciting and varied topography

Songs like ‰ÛÏFamous Phone Figure ۝cradle character sketches over delicate strains of violin

a psychedelic masterpiece drenched in colour and inspired by life

his fascination was renewed by old favourites and standards he had not heard in years

listeners may have felt they knew the construction of a Barlow song

Virgin Witch was his first brush with film scoring – one of only two score he wrote

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As so eloquently put by John Peel

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