Aretha Franklin: Amazing Grace (Atlantic)
Roger St. Pierre, NME, 26 August 1972
THOUGH IT HAS received wide critical accalim Aretha Franklin's latest album, the double set Amazing Grace, is far and away the least commercially orientated she has recorded since she joined Atlantic and became a super-star.
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