For our final segment on the extraordinary career of Aretha Franklin, we focus on the multiple elements of her astounding greatness.

Styles come and go, and at times Aretha found herself derailed by inappropriate production, but the power of her musical abilities never diminished. In the last decade of her life, she recorded some of the most spectacular music of her entire career, and so the music featured herein is a celebration of Aretha, surely the greatest singer of her generation.

Featured tracks include:

Surely God Is Able

Oh, Happy Day (w Mavis Staples)

Someone Else’s Eyes

Someday We’ll All Be Free 

It Hurts Like Hell

A Rose Is Still a Rose

Rolling in the Deep (Aretha’s version)

My Country ‘Tis of Thee

Never Gonna Break My Faith

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