Aretha At Her Peak, part 2

By Mark Anthony Neal During those two nights in January of 1972, the New Temple Missionary Baptist Church in Los Angeles was the site of something truly amazing. The song list from the first night of the live recording session for Aretha Franklin’s Amazing Grace album reveals the eclecticism that would become the hallmark of Franklin’s ...

Amazing Grace . Aretha Franklin . Blues . Clara Ward . Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. . Gospel . Luther Vandross . Marvin Gaye . Patti LaBelle . Queen of Soul . R&B . Rev. C.L. Franklin . Rev. James Cleveland . Soul . Thomas Dorsey Artist Profiles