Jerry Wexler: Aretha And Me
Tom Cox, Guardian, The, 13 August 1999
JERRY WEXLER, co-founder of Atlantic Records and in-house producer, was picking himself up off the floor of Muscle Shoals studio in Alabama when he received the telephone call that changed the face of soul music.
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