I am in the middle of Mario Vargas Llosa's latest novel “Travesuras de la niña mala” (The Bad Girl) and I am totally under the spell of this wonderful love story about a decades-long obsession of its narrator, a Peruvian expatriate, with a woman with whom he first fell in love when both were teenagers. The Bad Girl is a fascinating tale about the obsession of love taken to the point of destruction. Here are 5 powerful soul songs that evoke the same feeling of love, loss and desperation:
I Can’ Take It – OTIS CLAY
(The Best of OTIS CLAY: The Hi Records Years - EMI/The Right Stuff 1996 CD)
Dead – EDE ROBIN
(Down & Out: The Sad Soul Of The Black South - Trikont Records 1998 CD)
(My Heart Is) Closed For The Season – BETTYE SWANN
(Bettye Swann - BETTYE SWANN - Honest Jons 2004 CD)
Eight Men Four Women – O.V. WRIGHT
(The Soul of O.V. WRIGHT - MCA 1992 CD)
Ghost of Myself – DORIS DUKE
(I'm A Loser - DORIS DUKE - Ace Records 2005 CD)
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