Denise LaSalle. Southern soul royalty who wrote what she sang and meant every word. Trapped by a Thing Called Love -- a song about knowing a man is wrong for you and staying anyway -- hit #1 on the r&b charts and #13 on pop. She didn't wait for someone to give her material. She sat down and wrote it herself. Ran her own label. Called her own shots. A woman who understood that the blues and the truth were the same thing.