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Aretha Franklin Sings the Phone Book
By Sam Adams, eMusic Contributor
Amidst the thousands of words attached to Columbia Records 'massive overview or Aretha Franklin's five years on the label is a quote from her 2000 autobiography: "I look at my entire Columbia experience in a positive light. I wouldn't change anything." That a tepid, not-quite-double negative is the best evidence supporting evidence the set's producers can dig up says a lot about the low regard in which Franklin's pre-Atlantic period is typically held - that is,… more »
Six Degrees of The Gilded Palace of Sin & Burrito Deluxe
By Michelangelo Matos, eMusic Contributor
It used to be easier to pretend that an album was its own perfectly self-contained artifact. The great records certainly feel that way. But albums are more permeable than solid, their motivations, executions and inspirations informed by, and often stolen from, their peers and forbearers. It all sounds awfully formal, but it's not. It's the very nature of music — of art, even. The Six Degrees features examine the relationships between classic records and five… more »
Six Degrees of Dusty in Memphis
By Andria Lisle, eMusic Contributor
It used to be easier to pretend that an album was its own perfectly self-contained artifact. The great records certainly feel that way. But albums are more permeable than solid, their motivations, executions and inspirations informed by, and often stolen from, their peers and forbearers. It all sounds awfully formal, but it's not. It's the very nature of music — of art, even. The Six Degrees features examine the relationships between classic records and five… more »
Icon: Aretha Franklin
By Douglas Wolk, eMusic Contributor
Aretha Franklin was groomed from birth to sing. The daughter of a Detroit reverend, Franklin started recording at age 14 - first gospel, then pop. The string of records she made between 1967 and 1974, though, are the peak of the great American diva's magnificent career: rolling, roaring, heartstopping soul music (with flashes of rock 'n 'roll), political and sexual and spiritual all at once. Her interpretive gifts shine glory on everything she sings, but… more »