The following story, penned by Ritchie Yorke, first appeared in The Globe Magazine in 1969 and it perfectly captures the vibe of Aretha recoding in Miami's Criteria with Tom Dowd, Jerry Wexler, arranger Arif Mardin, her four-member vocal backing group the Sweethearts of Soul, and the Muscle Shoals rhythm section.
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August 17, 2018
by David Farrell
Her legacy is twofold: Delivering an irreversible vocal truncheon to America’s systemic racial intolerance, and offering women of the world an emphatic credo that stated it was time to rise up and respect themselves.