Part 2: Janis Ian to Jimi Hendrix (1966-1970)

By PopMatters Staff

Music truly is the universal language. The best songs of protest are passed around, from movement-to-movement, era-to-era; its singers gaining multilingual fluency along the way. [17 July 2007]

Aretha Franklin: Rare & Unreleased Recordings from the Golden Reign of the Queen of Soul

By Zeth Lundy

Two-disc compilation offers up a wealth of demos, outtakes, alternate versions, and B-sides from Franklin's 1966-1974 Atlantic sessions. [26 October 2007]

Aretha Franklin: Live at Fillmore West

By Christian John Wikane

Live at Fillmore West puts the exclamation point in "Queen of Soul!" [17 August 2006]

Aretha Franklin: Jazz Moods: Round Midnight

By Jason MacNeil

Classic jazz, classic Aretha. Need anything more be said?" [5 August 2005]

Aretha Franklin: The Queen in Waiting: The Columbia Years (1960-1965)

By Mark Anthony Neal

Arguably one of the most important recordings done by a black artists in the post-Civil Rights era, throughout Amazing Grace Franklin seamlessly weaves through traditional sacred recordings.

Sound Affects: Good Grief: Pop, Dialogue and Detroit Natives

Indeed, a people who feel unloved are capable of anything. A people who feel loved are capable of everything. [24 March 2009]

Mum’s pretty much the word for Aretha Franklin [25 April 2007]