Tuesday, July 26, 2011

Aretha Franklin -- Aretha Arrives

  Aretha Arrives is mostly a collection of cover songs from, the Stones, to Willie Nelson, even ? and the Mysterians, with a couple of traditional blues numbers and a tune written by her baby sister Carolyn.  What's most interesting is how she can take any song and totally Aretharize it.  The only chart topper and closing track on this record is the cool smooth Baby I Love you, as the record ends you kinda wish there were more songs like this one up ahead, but Aretha Arrives too late!