Some Bridges Need Burning Down

artist:Keisa Brown

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Title: Some Bridges Need Burning Down

Artist: Keisa Brown

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Song Types: R&B/Soul

Key: Bb

Info: Keisa (pronounced "Key-sa") Brown was born in Mississippi. Blessed with a powerful, one-of-a-kind singing voice, she apprenticed in churches and secular venues, making a name for herself in Chicago and then Los Angeles. From the mid-seventies to the mid-eighties Keisa recorded many disco-related singles like "Don't Take Away Your Love," "Do Ya, Do Ya, Do Ya Want Somebody" and "The Dance Man."

Unlike her "first cousin" of Southern rhythm and blues, Peggy Scott-Adams, Brown never had the good fortune to establish a longtime partnership with a producer/songwriter/mentor as Scott-Adams did with Jimmy Lewis. And yet, Brown's collaboration with Frederick Knight in the eighties and nineties was the highpoint of her career, resulting in a flurry of exceptional songs on two small labels (Park Place, Juana) no longer in print.

In fact, Brown's career was in many ways the reverse of the Southern Soul artist norm. In the eighties, while most R&B musicians were idle and disenfranchised, Keisa Brown was headlining concerts throughout the nation and Europe and scoring lucrative gigs as a back-up singer with superstars like Gladys Knight, Neil Diamond, Tina Turner, Patti LaBelle, Boyz II Men and Brandy. But by the nineties, when the majority of R&B artists were coming into full flower, Brown was performing less and no longer recording.

At last, in 1999, Jackson, Mississippi's Malaco Records, recognizing Brown's pivotal place in contemporary soul, reunited her with Frederick Knight for what was essentially a "greatest-hits" album, The Keisa Brown Collection. All of the experience of her years performing her legendary concert act was distilled into an album that remains her single, greatest gift to posterity, and the tracks from that CD, including not only "I've Been Lonely For So Long" but the anthemic "Fly On The Wall" and "Some Bridges Need Burning Down," still grace the rotations of today's Southern Soul deejays.

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