Quiet Fire (Roberta Flack album)

Quiet Fire is the third studio album by American singer Roberta Flack, released in November 1971 by Atlantic Records.

[3] At the 15th Annual Grammy Awards, the album secured Roberta Flack a nomination for Best Pop Vocal Performance, Female.

In a contemporary review for The Village Voice, Robert Christgau gave Quiet Fire a C rating, 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.

while writing: "Forgoing the full-throttled delivery of, say, Aretha Franklin, Flack translates the pathos of gospel expression into measured intensity and sighing, elongated phrases.