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Aretha Sings the Blues

Aretha Franklin

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Album Review

Although not a blues singer in the strictest sense, Aretha Franklin's glorious voice could never make anything dull, especially not blues classics. These songs didn't attract a lot of attention when they came out in the '60s, with a couple of exceptions. Since Columbia issued all these anthologies, there has been a great debate raging as to whether or not it was a marketing failure or a production failure preventing Franklin from achieving more success at the label. The question won't be answered by this release.

Customer Reviews

Excellent!

This is a must have. For all Aretha fans and blues music lovers in general. I love it and highly recommend it. Specially "Today I Sing the Blues"

Blues Lady

Great!I l love Aretha Franklin AND theblues! What a great blues album.

This Bitter Earth:

It was a marketing failure. Listen to her great voice. The sublime arrangements. I prefer the Columbia years to the Atlantic years which were great. But she has a great affinity for the standards. She has cited Judy Garland as a voice she loved.

Biography

Born: March 25, 1942 in Memphis, TN

Genre: R&B/Soul

Years Active: '50s, '60s, '70s, '80s, '90s, '00s, '10s

Aretha Franklin is one of the giants of soul music, and indeed of American pop as a whole. More than any other performer, she epitomized soul at its most gospel-charged. Her astonishing run of late-'60s hits with Atlantic Records — "Respect," "I Never Loved a Man," "Chain of Fools," "Baby I Love You," "I Say a Little Prayer," "Think," "The House That Jack Built," and several others — earned her the title "Lady Soul," which she has worn uncontested ever since. Yet as much of an international...
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