Her most personal record, it also became her most popular release, certified double platinum, the biggest-selling album of her career as well as the best-selling gospel album of all time.īut the liner notes of the original vinyl record revealed what must have been Aretha’s greatest frustration: “The recording of this album was filmed by Warner Brothers, Inc. Accompanied by Reverend James Cleveland and the Southern California Community Choir, Aretha’s sessions would be released later that year as the double album Amazing Grace. Franklin and her mentor Clara Ward (as well as Mick Jagger and Charlie Watts), she recorded her return to the gospel music she had grown up singing as a teenage prodigy. Over two consecutive nights at the New Temple Missionary Baptist Church in Watts, before a live audience that included her father Reverend C.L. In January 1972, Aretha Franklin came to Los Angeles to create what would become her greatest artistic statement. We’re republishing it today for the release of Amazing Grace. This story was originally published in November 2018.
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