2 Dusty Springfield A Brand New Me: The Complete Philadelphia Sessions REAL GONE/ATLANTIC, 2017

You say: “From Dusty With Love is up there with Dusty In Memphis in my book.” @RobertJCotter, via Twitter

By 1969 Dusty was making over £1,000-a-night on the UK and US tour circuit but her private life was in chaos. Some semblance of calm was restored with these magnificent sessions at Philadelphia’s Sigma Sound with production-songwriting team Kenny Gamble and Leon Huff. Depressed and selfmedicating, Springfield invests the duo’s bittersweet songs with a euphoric melancholy, as if these small dramas are taking place inside her smudged and bruised soul. The sessions were released as From Dusty With

Love in the UK, but are best appreciated here with such killer extra tracks as Summer Love and I Wanna Be A Free Girl.