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Aretha Franklin: Aretha Picks Songs By Lyrics

uncredited writer, Hit Parader, February 1971

I INTERVIEWED Aretha Franklin during one of her recording sessions, at the Atlantic Criteria studio in North Miami, just off the Dixie highway and about half a mile from the ocean. This was when she was recording with the transplanted rhythm section from Muscle Shoals, Alabama.

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