Ranked #83 in Rolling Stone's "500 Greatest Albums Of All Time" - "...Franklin's Atlantic debut is the place where gospel music collided with R&B and rock & roll and became soul...", 4 Stars - Excellent - "...the album came out in May 1967 and was Number 2 in America within weeks...now it stands untainted by time. She seemed so much a force of nature it's strange to recall that this was actually her tenth album...", Ranked #1 in Rolling Stone's "Women In Rock: The 50 Essential Albums" - "...Nobody has ever sung with more intensity...", Included in Q Magazine's "100 Greatest Albums Ever"
Distribution
Nail Distribution
Number of Discs
1
Engineer
Arif Mardin, Tom Dowd
Additional Information
Queen of Soul's debut for Atlantic--a gospel-infused soul epic that made her explosive pipes legendary.