Artist: Aretha Franklin
LP: The Tender, the Moving, the Swinging
It was while I was in Girona that my friend Eduardo in Seattle texted to tell me that Aretha Franklin had died. As you probably know, she was The Queen of Soul! There's really nothing more to say, except maybe Who's Zoomin' Who. I picked up this lovely 1962 LP at Bay Sound, a little shop across the bay from Mobile, Alabama, on my road trip through the South back in 2014. It's Franklin's third album, from when she was still just an incredible gal singer, before she was a queen, and it was her first to appear on the Billboard charts, peaking at #69. You can read all about Aretha here and go here to find her obituary in the New York Times.
Aretha Franklin
[ March 25, 1942 — August 16, 2018 ]
We will miss you, Aretha.
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