Live Review: Aretha Franklin in Hollywood, CA

Aretha Franklin [ tickets ] interrupted her bandleader H.B. Barnum after telling a mostly full Hollywood Bowl that she was ready to go back. "We're going back, we're just not going back there," Franklin said early in the second half of her two hours onstage. "We're going back to Atlantic Records." For the moment she was referring to the repertoire--"Today I Sing the Blues" was next on her copy of the set list--but in the grand scheme she was talking about the entire evening, a night rich in t...

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