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April 15, 2004

The Immortals - The Greatest Artists of All Time: 9) Aretha Franklin

By Jerry Wexler
May 23, 1974

Baby, I Know: Reassessing Aretha

Recordings and Reviews

Jewels in the Crown ...All Star Duets with the Queen

The third Aretha catalog exploitation of the fall is the first from Sony/BMG, which has long since deleted the Eighties and Nineties Aretha albums where half of its sixteen tracks first appeared, and it's also the best. But this isn't to accuse it of coherence or anything. Some of it has been previo...

2007 RS: 3.5of 5 Stars

So Damn Happy

2003

One Lord, One Faith, One Baptism

2003

A Rose Is Still A Rose

1998

What You See Is What You Sweat

1991

Through the Storm

1989

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Biography

Aretha Franklin is not only the definitive female soul singer of the '60s, but one of the most influential and important voices in the history of popular music. Aretha Franklin fused the leaps and swoops of the gospel music she grew up on with the sensuality of R&B, the innovation of jazz, and the precision of pop. After she hit her artistic and commercial stride in 1967, she made over a dozen mil...

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