Of Aretha’s 1970s albums, This Girl’s In Love With You is one of her strongest. The first side gets off to an excellent start with a cover of Son Of A…
Spirit In The Dark was recorded in Florida with a mix of personnel including Jazz players like Cornell Dupree and Dave Crawford, and Soul studio musicians like the…
After the success of I Never Loved A Man, Aretha’s first album for Atlantic, she churned out three more classics the following year in 1968 including this one,…
Aretha Franklin was the daughter of Reverend C.L. Franklin of Detroit, one of America’s leading African American preachers of the time. Aretha was a bit of a…
For whatever reason I’ve gotten 3 different copies of Aretha’s Young, Gifted, And Black LP, and on all three Day Dreaming has skipped. I guess it was a…
I Never Loved A Man was Aretha Franklin’s first album for Atlantic after she left Columbia. The label had problems finding the right setting for her recording…
Young, Gifted And Black is one of my favorite Aretha LPs for three simple reasons, Day Dreaming, Rock Steady, and Young, Gifted And Black. The title Day Dreaming fits…
Let Me In Your Life is a bit of an overlooked Aretha album that saw her matched with some of the leading Jazz session players of the time such as David Spinozza, Bob…
Live At Fillmore West was recorded right here in the Bay Area in San Francisco. Aretha had an all-star cast perform with her including Ray Charles, King Curtis and…
I’m not quite sure why Atlantic had Aretha record this album. After switching from Columbia in the mid-1960s Franklin had truly come into her own writing her…
Amazing Grace was Aretha’s live Gospel album. It was recorded in Los Angeles in support of a sermon by Aretha’s father, Reverend C.L. Franklin with the…
Aretha In Paris was recorded at the Olympia Theatre in Paris, France on May 7, 1968 as part of a two week tour of Europe. She gets right into the spirit of things…
I always think that Hey Now Hey is one of Aretha’s overlooked works. I just don’t see that many people talk about it. I actually picked this up from my…
