Album of the Day

It was the first day of June 1972 when Aretha Franklin released the instantly classic AMAZING GRACE live album, recorded in January of that year at the New Temple Missionary Baptist Church in Los Angeles, California. With such luminaries in the audience including Mick Jagger and Charlie Watts of the Rolling Stones (as seen in the incredible documentary film of the event that was released in 2018), Franklin and the Southern California Community Choir positively blaze through such Black American church standards as “Mary, Don’t You Weep” and “What a Friend We Have in Jesus.” Franklin’s impassioned performance brings the Holy Spirit to the packed congregation, creating a document that none less than Marvin Gaye once called "Aretha's singular masterpiece ... her greatest work." Today, we praise the eternal spirit of Aretha Franklin, and the indelible classic that is AMAZING GRACE.