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Title: Aretha Franklin has passed
Post by: David Houck on August 16, 2018, 07:03:39 AM

The AP is reporting that Aretha Franklin has passed.

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Post by: David Houck on August 16, 2018, 07:18:54 AM

Rolling Stone's article (https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/aretha-franklin-queen-of-soul-dead-at-76-119453/).

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Post by: jacko on August 16, 2018, 07:19:26 AM

Heartbreaking. 

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Post by: cozmik_cowboy on August 16, 2018, 07:29:08 AM

This one hits hard.  Farewell, Your Majesty!

Peter

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Post by: Philip-M-Bass on August 16, 2018, 07:38:44 AM

Thanks Dave,  I had not heard ,

The Queen of Soul !!!

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Post by: StefanieJones on August 16, 2018, 08:20:00 AM

SO very sad.

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Post by: Philip-M-Bass on August 16, 2018, 10:06:43 AM

Article from Essence magazine !

https://www.essence.com/celebrity/aretha-franklin-dead/

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Post by: bigredbass on August 16, 2018, 10:13:37 AM

Aretha was my gateway to soul music, which I often think is the root of all I ever played or imagined since those days as a kid when I first heard her records. 

For so many of us in the South, we all had an outlook that Elvis (and so many since) embodied:  We all grew up on a blend of gospel, both white and black, old-school country music, and rhythm and blues.  So soul music embodied all of that powerfully, and none more so than Aretha.  You could not hear her and not hear church, and combined with the production (and the session players, save for her brilliant piano playing on many of her hits) that Atlantic Records provided her, it was a melding impossible to ignore, pushed by that voice that spoke from deep recesses of her heart.  And of course, no one who plays bass can forget Chuck Rainey under 'Rock Steady' or Jerry Jemmot's lines under 'Chain of Fools' and the magnificent reading of Stevie Wonder's 'Till You Come Back to Me', that magical floating backbeat line.


David Hood tells the story that Aretha was coming to Muscle Shoals, and while they were excited, they'd never met her and were wondering how things were going to go . . . . until she walks in, sits down at the piano and starts playing.  They fell in right behind her like they'd played together forever.  And oh by the way, she could sing, too.


In the coverage today, they ran some of the video to 'I Knew You Were Waiting', her duet with George Michael, and am reminded how I can miss terribly people I never met, yet somehow feel I know in a way.  I am lucky to have lived in her time.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tOSB4Y8e3Z4 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tOSB4Y8e3Z4)

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Post by: lbpesq on August 16, 2018, 10:59:34 AM

Always loved Aretha's scene:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WY66elCQkYk (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WY66elCQkYk)

May The Four Winds Blow You Safely Home

Bill, tgo

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Post by: edwardofhuncote on August 16, 2018, 11:02:56 AM

The title of Queen upon her, was well-deserved. I will remember her music well.

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Post by: David Houck on August 16, 2018, 11:14:42 AM

Bill; yes, that's a classic.  Thanks for posting the link; it was good to watch it again this day.  Wonderful.

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Post by: dead_head on August 16, 2018, 12:11:43 PM

Yeah, that's a great scene in the Blues Brothers film. Thanks for posting, Bill.   8)     

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Post by: cozmik_cowboy on August 16, 2018, 02:28:26 PM

Aretha & Smokey (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xy75z0trlDk); feel free to FF to 1:53.

Peter

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Post by: mario_farufyno on August 16, 2018, 02:36:40 PM

Praise you, Queen. We'll miss you

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Post by: David Houck on August 16, 2018, 05:16:57 PM

Nice video of Aretha and Smokey.

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Post by: David Houck on August 16, 2018, 05:40:33 PM

From the Rolling Stone article ...

"... Franklin was also up for challenges. She stepped in to sing “Nessun Dorma” at the 1998 Grammys when Luciano Pavarotti was unable to perform, a trick few other non-opera singers would even have dared."

Here is that event - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_tsYKhGu--U (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_tsYKhGu--U)

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Post by: edwin on August 16, 2018, 07:29:24 PM

I have always loved this. I know she's in that better place.

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Post by: edwin on August 16, 2018, 07:31:26 PM

From Billy Preston (warning, language!):

“She can be hiding out in her house in Detroit for years. She can go decades without taking a plane or flying off to Europe. She can cancel half her gigs and infuriate every producer and promoter in the country. She can sing all kinds of jive-*ss songs that are beneath her. She can go into her diva act and turn off the world. But on any given night, when that lady sits down at the piano and gets her body and soul all over some righteous song, she’ll scare the sh*t out of you. And you’ll know—you’ll swear—that she’s still the best f*ckin’ singer this f*cked-up country has ever produced.”

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Post by: cozmik_cowboy on August 16, 2018, 08:06:47 PM

Quote from: edwin on August 16, 2018, 07:29:24 PM

I have always loved this. I know she's in that better place.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wb7D-W-QW-8 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wb7D-W-QW-8)

Wow!  Aretha and Mavis: Were there ever 2 more powerful voices???

Peter (Who must admit that spending his entire adult life as an atheist has not killed his love for gospel music)

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Post by: rv_bass on August 16, 2018, 08:18:36 PM

Rock Steady...

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Post by: rv_bass on August 16, 2018, 08:23:14 PM

Spirit in the Dark...

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Post by: mica on August 16, 2018, 09:20:29 PM

Trying not to be sad over this, and just remembering all the times she made my ears and heart feel amazing, and will continue to do so.

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Post by: pauldo on August 17, 2018, 07:40:27 PM

So glad to hear she passed at home... surrounded by love for sure.