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Jewels in the Crown ...All Star Duets with the Queen  Hear it Now

RS: 3.5of 5 Stars Average User Rating: 4of 5 Stars

2007

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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 previously recycled — the Annie Lennox so endlessly we need not name it here, the Keith Richards "Jumpin' Jack Flash" as a bonus cut for a greatest-hits collection initially baited with the merely adequate Bonnie Raitt-Gloria Estefan "Natural Woman." Some of it is lively if expedient (George Michael, Elton John). Some of it is bland (George Benson) or dismal (Frank Sinatra, though only his part). And there are three "newly recordeds," the prize featuring not Mary J. Blige or John Legend but Fantasia, whom the Queen indulges as the naive young thing she is — and who will never make one of these in her life.

ROBERT CHRISTGAU

(Posted: Nov 15, 2007)

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natureboy writes:

4of 5 Stars


On and popin especially the areatha and whitney
selection.

Jan 14, 2008 18:09:14

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platessplatess writes:

5of 5 Stars


I DON'T HAVE THIS ALBUM, YET, IN MY POSSESSION, AND STILL I CAN RATE IT WITH NO HESITATION AT ALL.

I HEARD THE 2 NEW TRACKS AND THEY ARE WICKED FIERCE!

FOR ADMIRING FANS WHO HAVE BEEN WAITING ANXIOUSLY FOR 3 1/2 YEARS THESE TRACKS DON'T TIRE.

BUT EVERYTHING ELSE HERE IS A COMPILATION OF ARETHA FRANKLIN'S GREATEST DUETS - AND THEY ARE INDEED MASSIVE POWERHOUSE PAIRINGS (W/FRANK SINATRA - LUTHER VANDROSS) . THIS ALBUM IS A PERFECT PREQUEL TO HER NEXT MASTERPIECE (YES?)AND WILL OBVIOUSLY EARN HER QUITE A FEW MORE STACKS OF MILLION DOLLARS IN HER BANK ACCOUNT. BUT FOR THE NEWER GENERATIONS WHO ARE NOT ALL FAMILIAR WITH 'ARETHA THE LIVING LEGEND', THIS ALBUM IS A MUST HAVE INTRODUCTION.

THAT'S IT FOLKS - BUT IT!

PLATESS

Nov 15, 2007 16:47:36

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