Via the power of the Tidal streaming platform, I somehow arrived at an artist called Avion Blackman. Beautiful voice. My usual genre. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vTCxmMxuszM
What an epic clip. If anyone ever needs to understand what soul music is just let them listen to Aretha. Should get double figure thumbs up imo - brilliant!
The Aretha clip showed one of the co-writers of the song dutifully and justifiably in awe of Aretha’s performance. Carole King of course is a fantastic artist in her own right and the Tapestry album is pure class. She wrote so many songs for others and this one of course was a hit in the early 60s for The Shirelles - If you’ve never listened to Tapestry - you should!
Not a song but an album. I have been listening to the PJ Harvey back catalogue this week and her Let England Shake long player is a one of my favourite albums ever. It’s perfect in so many ways....a “complete” album with such beautiful songs. Give it a spin.