Episode description
On this week’s episode, we discuss the 10th album by Aretha Franklin, and her first for Atlantic Records, the groundbreaking I Never Loved a Man the Way That I Loved You.
The Queen of Soul had made a series of decidedly un-soulful albums when her career began with Columbia Records. Discovered by the legendary John Hammond (Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen, Stevie Ray Vaughn, Billie Holiday), he tried to mold her into the next Billie Holiday with big band and string arrangements, and ignored those very things that made her special. The move to Atlantic Records saw her teaming up with Jerry Wexler, who understood exactly what made Aretha Franklin unique. Backed by some of the most legendary session musicians around, Franklin and Wexler produced an album full of gospel-infused soul that showed the world what it had been missing, a singer and musician of unparalleled emotion and power. Popular music would never be the same again.
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