★★★★★
We at SoulTracks love us some lists. That's actually a weakness that afflicts all of us media types - especially in the Internet age. We love lists because you the consumer love them. We at SoulTracks give the people what they want, so our visitors can find lists of greatest songs, albums, slow jams, and disco and gospel songs for the last five decades. The writers compile personal year-end lists of our three or four favorite albums to be posted on the site in late December...
- www.soultracks.com
2014-02-28
★★★★★
2014 repress. "Originally released in 1967, this is Aretha Franklin's first album for Atlantic and possibly the greatest debut in the history of soul music. This soul landmark contains one of the truly seminal singles ever ('Respect'), 2 killer tracks recorded at Fame Studio in Muscle Shoals ('I Never Loved A Man The Way I Love You' and 'Do Right Woman-Do Right Man') plus lots of other great hard soul groovers. A masterpiece from start to finish...
- www.forcedexposure.com
2014-01-16
★★★★★
Released in January 1968, Lady Soul completed a remarkable 12 months of achievement for . Having been signed to Atlantic in 1966 after years in the doldrums at Columbia, her Jerry Wexler-produced albums, and Aretha Arrives had finally made her the critical and commercial toast of America. Pieced together from material recorded since the start of 1967 - with the bulk captured at a December session in New York - Lady Soul won a set of remarkable statistical achievements that testify to how widely...
- www.bbc.co.uk
2013-04-23
★★★★★
It used to be both popular and lame for people to say things like, "Oh, I love everything such and such artist/band has done, except for their '80s stuff." You hear that less and less these days, and it probably has a lot to do with all the '80s revivalism, nostalgia-pop, and record collection rock that's come out of the last decade of popular music. I guess the further we get from the 1980s, the better that decade sounds...
- www.undertheradarmag.com
2012-07-02
★★★★★
180 gram exact repro of Aretha Franklin's 1972 album, featuring covers of John Lennon & Paul McCartney's "The Long And Winding Road," Elton John's "Border Song (Holy Moses)" and Nina Simone's "Young, Gifted And Black.
- www.forcedexposure.com
2012-05-14
★★★★★
Aretha Franklin is a stunningly flexible singer who defies any attempts to link her to a single musical style. Her famous hits from the late '60s are no-nonsense soul stompers and aching ballads. But around the same time, she also excelled as a big band singer of jazzy blues (check out "So Long" or almost any cut from the album Soul '69) and as a gospel singer (listen to her take on Amazing Grace )...
- www.popmatters.com
2012-02-27
★★★★★
"Think." "Call Me." "Respect." "Day Dreaming." "(You Make Me Feel Like A) Natural Woman." Long before I witnessed a live performance and met her backstage in 2008, I've recognized and celebrated the magnificence of Aretha Franklin. Thanks to my Baby Boomer parents, those dusky, dulcet pipes filled our home on Sunday mornings, Saturday nights and practically every occasion in-between, gracing songs filled such fervor and charisma that Ms...
- www.soultracks.com
2012-02-06
★★★★★
"I ain't had no lovin'/Since you know when/He's a lonesome old rooster/And I'm a lonesome hen." So crows 18-year-old Aretha Franklin on the first song of her 1961 Columbia Records debut. "Won't Be Long," wanton exuberance in the (broken) mold of Ray Charles' "I Got a Woman," thus represents perhaps the apex of March's 11-CD Take a Look: Aretha Franklin Complete on Columbia...
- www.austinchronicle.com
2011-08-01
★★★★★
The good news is that Aretha Franklin, who just turned 69, is recording, and that her magnificent instrument, though thinning a bit, retains plenty of its power and agility. She's calling her own shots here, as executive producer, head of her own label and, on numerous tracks, producer and/or songwriter. There are magic moments: the vocal fireworks capping a cover of B.B. King's "Sweet Sixteen," and the playful Seventies-style soul-jazz jammy "U Can't See Me...
- www.rollingstone.com
2011-05-17
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