Product details
- Label Legacy
- Artist Aretha Franklin
- Format 2LP
- Country United States
- Released Date 2021
- Genre Jazz
- Sealed Yes
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Knew You Were Waiting- The Best Of Aretha Franklin 1980- 2014 by Aretha Franklin.
There are collections that trace an artist's rise, and then there are collections that prove an artist never stopped rising. "Knew You Were Waiting: The Best Of Aretha Franklin 1980-2014" belongs firmly in the second category, gathering more than three decades of the Queen of Soul at her most fearless, adaptable, and undeniably commanding. Spread across four sides, it captures a chapter of Aretha's career that too often gets overshadowed by her earlier triumphs, and it makes the case for these later years as some of her boldest.
Side A opens with the warmth of "United Together" and "Love All The Hurt Away" before shifting gears into the irresistible strut of "Jump To It" and the propulsive energy of "Freeway Of Love." Right away you hear an artist embracing a new decade on her own terms, folding contemporary production around a voice that needed no reinvention. That momentum carries straight into Side B, where "Who's Zoomin' Who" and the anthemic "Sisters Are Doin' It For Themselves" show Aretha in full command of the dancefloor, closing with her exhilarating take on "Jumpin' Jack Flash."
The set's emotional center arrives on Side C. "Jimmy Lee" leads into the record's namesake, "I Knew You Were Waiting (For Me)," a duet that became one of the defining crossover moments of her later catalog. From there, "Through The Storm" and "It Isn't, It Wasn't, It Ain't Never Gonna Be" find Aretha trading verses and holding her ground, reminding everyone that no partner ever outsang her.
Side D pushes the timeline forward with "Ever Changing Times" and the house-inflected surge of "A Deeper Love," a track that proved Aretha could meet the club era head on and win. "Willing To Forgive" softens the tempo with gospel-rooted grace, while "A Rose Is Still A Rose" delivers one of her most affecting late-period statements, a song about resilience delivered by the very woman who embodied it.
The collection saves its most striking gesture for last. "Rolling In The Deep (The Aretha Version)" reclaims a modern classic and refracts it through decades of hard-won authority, turning a contemporary anthem into something that sounds like it was hers all along. It is a fitting close, an artist in her seventies still reaching forward rather than looking back.
For listeners who know Aretha through her sixties and seventies landmarks, this is the essential companion volume, a portrait of an artist who treated every new sound as another room to walk into and own. Play it start to finish and you hear a voice that simply refused to age out of relevance.
Pressing Details:
Track Listing:
A1. United Together
A2. Love All The Hurt Away
A3. Jump To It
A4. Get It Right
A5. Freeway Of Love
B1. Who’s Zoomin’ Who
B2. Sisters Are Doin’ It For Themselves
B3. Another Night
B4. Jumpin’ Jack Flash
C1. Jimmy Lee
C2. I Knew You Were Waiting (For Me)
C3. Through The Storm
C4. It Isn’t, It Wasn’t, It Ain’t Never Gonna Be
D1. Ever Changing Times
D2. A Deeper Love
D3. Willing To Forgive
D4. A Rose Is Still A Rose
D5. Rolling In The Deep (The Aretha Version)
Artist: Aretha Franklin
Format: 2LP
Genre: Jazz
Label: Legacy
Catalog Number: 19439865191
Release Year: 2021
Country: United States
Condition: Sealed (New)
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