Roberta Flack ‎– Quiet Fire -1971 - Funk /Soul (vinyl)

Roberta Flack ‎– Quiet Fire -1971 - Funk /Soul (vinyl)

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Quiet Fire is the third studio album by American singer-songwriter Roberta Flack, released in November 1971 by Atlantic Records.^[1] It was recorded at Atlantic Recording Studios, Regent Studios, and The Hit Factory in New York City.^[2] 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.

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.'"^[4] In a retrospective review, The Rolling Stone Album Guide(1992) gave it two out of five stars and claimed it "barely sparks at all".^[5] 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, elongatedphrases