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Nessun Dorma Aretha Franklin Download3/29/2021
Good to Me as I Am to You, with its stinging Eric Clapton solo, may dig the deepest.Niki Hoeky is jubilant Cajun country-soul, and other tracks find gospel amid the grits and gravy.
Towering above it all are the stone classic Chain of Fools and the audaciously adult (You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman, both as unforgettable as they are unstoppable. And when Aretha wails on Sam Cookes A Change Is Gonna Come, you know she speaks the truth. Franklins earthshaking vocal performance and the feel-it-in-your-knees groove on Respect transform an Otis Redding number into a womens rights anthem that demands dancing. ![]() ![]() Franklin, Aretha could testify with all the liberating joy of her gospel roots. She could ache with the sadness of a singer who truly felt the blues, and swing with a playfulness to match her jazz heroes. After nearly a decade honing what would become her singular voice, Franklinwho was born in Memphis in 1942, and died in Detroit in 2018brought a blast of black-and-proud empowerment to the pop charts at the peak of the civil rights era, using the hard-driving grooves of Alabama studio-session legends the Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section to counter Motowns slick crossover sound. Though rarely straying long from gospel in the decades that followed, Franklin made the brassy 1967 anthem Respect her calling card and evolved alongside soul itself, gliding from assertive funk jams to hushed quiet-storm ballads to synth-coated pop hits on 1985s Whos Zoomin Who. ![]()
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