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Killing Me Softly (Roberta Flack album)
''Killing Me Softly'' is a studio album by American singer-songwriter Roberta Flack, released on August 1, 1973, by Atlantic Records. She recorded the album with producer Joel Dorn for 18 months.〔
''Killing Me Softly'' reached number three on the ''Billboard'' Top LPs & Tape and number two 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 two 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 released as a single and topped the ''Billboard'' Hot 100.〔 It won the 1974 Grammy Award for Record of the Year.
== Critical reception ==
In a positive review for the ''Chicago Tribune'', journalist Clarence Page said ''Killing Me Softly'' has a hit title track and "other potential hits, adding up to one of () better albums".〔 〕 John S. Wilson, writing in ''The New York Times'', felt that Flack and producer Joel Dorn "have resisted the pitfalls of overproducing that you would suppose such a long gestation period would induce".〔 〕 ''Billboard'' magazine called the album a "delicate, introspective work" by Flack, who is a "masterful interpreter of clean lyrics fusing a sophisticated pop sound with that dark side of the blues". In his review for ''Creem'' magazine, Robert Christgau gave ''Killing Me Softly'' a "C"-grade, indicating "a record of clear professionalism or barely discernible inspiration, but not both". He compared Flack negatively to Jesse Colin Young because she also "always makes you wonder whether she's going to fall asleep before you do".〔
In a retrospective review, ''The Rolling Stone Album Guide'' (1992) gave ''Killing Me Softly'' two-and-a-half out of five stars and found its music "inocuous". By contrast, Allmusic's Ron Wynn gave it four and a half stars and said the album "continued in the same tradition as ''Chapter Two'' and ''A Quiet Fire''", and featured "simmering ballads, declarative message songs, and better-than-average up-tempo numbers".
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