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| | Aretha Franklin - I Never Loved a Man The Way I Love You - 4 Men With Beards Records (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27) |
 | | Her incredible talent, her newfound freedom, and cracking material, including some self-penned songs, combined into a dangerous, volatile solution, and the resulting explosion is "I Never Loved a Man the Way I Loved You", a label debut soaked in glory and with nary a weak song between the hits. |
 | | Yes, the singles everybody has heard by now, "Respect" and "I Never Loved a Man", sound terrific, but "Drown in My Own Tears", with stellar lead and background vocals, is clear enough finally to announce itself as the neglected blues-inflected classic it is. "Soul Serenade" is lush with softly insistent horns, and "Dr. |
 | | If you already love this album, you will hear it like never before, and if you have never heard it yet, you are in for one of the nicest treats ever heard in your musical lifetime. |
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