Thirteen seconds into Susan Cadogan’s ‘Hurt So Good’, an irresistible Lee Perry backbeat kicks in, and Cadogan lets go with her growling purr of a voice, unspooling a swampy, sultry piece of enabling. Her man runs her name through the street and treats her like trash, but ooweeee can he do the nasty. Some ills, it would seem, can be cured by the squeak of bedsprings. Bill Withers said ‘Use Me’. Al Green said ‘Let’s Stay Together’. Susan Cadogan says ‘I don’t want you to ever quit. It ain’t no good, ’til it hurts a little bit.” Mercy…
Listen: Hurt So Good
