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loleatta holloway - can't let you go - vega records - vinyl

New Copy

Genre: House - New York

1. Can't Let You Go (Louie Vega Roots mix)
2. Can't Let You Go (Yvonne Turner main mix)
3. Can't Let You Go (Yvonne Turner dub)
4. Can't Let You Go (Louie Vega Truth dub 2)
5. Can't Let You Go (Louie Vega Truth dub 1)

'Can't Let You Go' is one of the last unreleased recordings Loleatta completed before her passing in 2011. In the main mix, she addresses a relationship she knows she should end but can't bring herself to leave because the lovin' is just too good: 'I keep coming back time and time again,' she ruminates with raw emotion. 'We got to make things better or we got to do whatever to make it right' oh, let's make it right, 'cause I can't let you go.'

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For the unfamiliar, Loleatta Holloway, a.k.a. the 'Queen of the Night', is a bona fide disco and soul icon. The singer behind successful singles such as 'Hit and Run'and 'Love Sensation,' she is one of the most sampled artists from the disco era.

The posthumous single was written and produced by prolific artist Yvonne Turner. Providing subtle, smooth background vocals for the track, she allows Loleatta's belting vocals to be the star of the percussive house groover; while Vega Records boss Louie Vega offers a 'Roots' mix and emotion-charged 'Soul House'mix. Louie Vega also invited his vocalist friends Tawatha Agee (of seminal R&B and soul group Mtume) and Cindy Mizelle (Louie Vega's longtime collaborator) to add powerful hooks and new background arrangements, enhancing the track with some call and response to Loleatta's adlibs during the vamp. Gene Perez on Bass, Axel Tosca on Fender Rhodes, and Roberto Quintero on percussion. In all, the record is club-ready catharsis made for dancing all your troubles away.