![]() They had that magic quality of being able to carry as much emotion as the singer could muster. “Dark End of the Street,” delivered in raw emotion by James Carr “I’m Your Puppet ” Percy Sledge’s incredible “It Tears Me Up ” “Sweet Inspiration,” “Cry Like a Baby,” and “You Left the Water Running.” All were songs with lots of “furniture”–tasty turns of phrase, minimal verbiage and truckloads of room for emotion and heart. This name kept appearing under song titles that moved me so much I had to know who wrote them. It wasn’t until much later that I discovered the songwriter’s name…some guy named Dan Penn. One favorite she did was “Do Right Woman.” I wore the grooves out on that record I promise you. Although I was living in Chicago and soaking up the blues (learning about Etta James–whoa child!!), listening to Aretha sing gospel and soul moved and shook me good. ![]() I guess I’d have been hard-pressed, way back there in the Sixties, to come up with a singer I liked better than Aretha Franklin.
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