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Aretha Franklin;: The Sound Made Flesh -Amazing Grace: The Complete Recordings

#Amazinggrace #GospelMusic #ArethaFranklin #QueenofSoul #Respect #RIP #RnB #Soul  It begins with a sonic relay, the buzz of conversation interwoven with the hum of a Hammond organ. Like the first seconds of Marvin Gaye's " Got to Give It Up ," the sound of the voices chatting and the organ playing announces life in a lower frequency and register. In those initial moments, one cannot know which came first, the talking or the playing, because they are deeply entangled. This entanglement sets the stage for anticipation, the desire for Spirit to happen and flow and release. The refusal of a border — between the noise of the flesh and the noise of the electrical, mechanical object — might tell us something about how  Aretha Franklin  thought about black creativity. The recording that includes this entanglement of flesh and machine was made available on  Amazing Grace: The Complete Recordings  (1999), an extension of the original 1972 hit album. But this extended version