you heard Aretha's Soul '69? @twinkletoez get this woman back to Muscle Shoals cause that schmaltzy New York production f***in sucks

I figured it was bad

Aretha, Nina and Tina all too distracted by the white boys this year

Tina still carried

yeah shes the only one that landed a classic with Proud Mary (which they started performing in '69 but dint release till '71). Roberta Flack also crushed her Leonard Cohen cover

feel like they all heard Wilson Picketts version of Hey Jude like Arethas version of Eleanor Rigby isn't even touching Ray Charles version from '68

That Randall smiley usage

Ray is like top 10 singers ever. The Genius… album is a masterwork of vocal talent

this outro is to blues rock what the outro to Stand is to funk

im still saying this should be considered the very first hard soul tune back in '57

how you like this album? some extreme classic on there

Top 10 soul album
Literal perfection

Hard soul
What about Fats?

ill give it to Clapton for finally pulling up with something pretty substantial here, but also

"I have finally found a way to live
In the color of the Lord"

what color would that be, Mr. "Get the wogs out. Get the coons out. Keep Britain white"

Your Clapton beef is still hilarious

Gimme the Cream and Derek albums
After that, Thanos snap him

nah Fats brought the "roll" to rock and roll and was just a source of infinite warmth

Ray invented the cold ass hard ass soul song

this is as close as Fats got and it sounds like hes specifically trying to do a Ray to me

hes never getting off the hook

I also really like how this intro starts out like they're gonna dive into some complex rock god banger then transitions into a Buddy Holly ditty @twinkletoez @RVI

wonder how much she influenced Elvis going back to Memphis this came out half a year before his and the same month he left Hollywood

You know it had to, man. Something like Son of a Preacher Man probably had him look hard as f*** in the mirror.

@HeyFella

He already had his mojo back after the tv special but he must've realized going back home was the next move thanks to Dusty (and Jerry Wexler)

Can remember my pops reciting the gibberish Scottish part when I was a kid @RVI he memorized it phonetically when they were teenagers