Comments on: Aretha, Don’t Go

By: Sister Wolf

Sister Wolf — Thu, 16 Aug 2018 21:09:37 +0000

JK – Yes! xoxo

Suspended – I’m glad I heard it from you, that’s kind of a blessing in itself.

By: Sister Wolf

Sister Wolf — Thu, 16 Aug 2018 21:07:27 +0000

Suspended – You express things so much better than I can, and you are speaking straight from my heart. Yes to every word.

Bevitron – Yes. I used to play “Prove It”, a B-side to something, over and over, and just swoon. Thank you for sharing everything with me.

By: JK

JK — Thu, 16 Aug 2018 19:22:42 +0000

By: Suspended

Suspended — Thu, 16 Aug 2018 14:17:23 +0000

The Queen has left the building.

R.I.P Miss Franklin.

By: Bevitron

Bevitron — Thu, 16 Aug 2018 05:43:09 +0000

Oh yes, Sister Wolf.
I remember the very first time I ever heard her voice when I was a kid, I couldn’t believe it. Just knocked me slap out. After I read your post I had to go listen to “Ain’t No Way,” a tune that puts her magnificence on full display, for me. At 3:10 into it she gives out with such an immaculate cascade of notes that I almost feel hopeful, or something.

I’ll love her forever and ever.

By: Suspended

Suspended — Wed, 15 Aug 2018 22:48:28 +0000

I’m not ready to let go either. I need her to stick around. She’s one of the few people I’d give a free pass to live forever (if I had any say over that.)

Obama wasn’t the only one with tears in his eyes. That performance really moved me, in part, because I’d just watched the absolutely awful and ill advised Adele cover she did. I stupidly thought the best of Aretha was already gone…then bam! The Kennedy Centre Honours. She marched in there with her fur coat and hand-bag and went to church, and tore the house down. What a talent.

I have this weird feeling that if Aretha goes it will set the ball rolling for important fragments of my life to start slipping away. An odd feeling that’s new to me, and really isn’t rational. I’ve been checking the news everyday even though I know there isn’t going to be any good news.

I want her to stay, but I don’t want her to hang around and suffer.