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Aretha Franklin - Aretha Now (VMP Classics AAA Vinyl Me Please) | LP Record New
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November 12, 2023
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September 12, 2023
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Aretha Franklin – Aretha Now Vinyl Me, Please. Classics – C033
Aretha Now, the 13th studio album from Aretha Franklin, is the February 2020 Classics selection. It's been AAA remastered from the original tapes.
Released on the heels of splashier albums like 'I Never Loved A Man The Way I Love You' (VMP Essentials #84) and 'Lady Soul', 'Aretha Now' is often — and unfortunately — overlooked in her body of work. I find this album to be interesting and important because it does in 10 songs what her handlers at Columbia spent six years trying to do: demonstrate her ability to sing anything and everything without reading as gimmicky or unfocused like so many of her early albums, which ping-ponged from jazz, to Broadway standards, to novelty songs, resembling a person trying a series of keys in a door in an attempt to determine which one will unlock it. 'Aretha Now' is an evolved — and effortless-sounding — showcase of her range and versatility; her ability to not only elevate any song she sang, but to make it completely hers in such a way that it’s impossible to imagine anyone else singing it.
