Aretha’s Greatest Albums – The Talking Fern

Aretha’s Greatest Albums: ‘Jump To It’ (1982)

Rob Sheffield on the magic moment when Queen Aretha met Luther Vandross

Inside the best-selling gospel masterpiece that took Franklin back to her roots in the church

Covering the Beatles, Simon & Garfunkel and Stephen Stills in San Francisco, Franklin delivered one show-stopping performance after another

On the last proper album released in her lifetime, the Queen gave a generous reading of decades of pop

On the last proper album released in her lifetime, the Queen gave a generous reading of decades of pop

Aretha Franklin, who died on August 16th at age 76, recorded more than 40 full-length albums […]

Just six months after ‘Lady Soul,’ Franklin returned with another keeper

When Franklin teamed up with Curtis Mayfield in the mid-1970s, creative sparks flew

Remembering a 1970s used-record-store encounter with one of Franklin’s finest full-lengths

Aretha danced with disco and the MTV era on this lost gem from the early ’80s