There Ain't Nothing Like the Real Thing
Last weekend, my wife and I woke up to a rainy Saturday and it was a super-soaker shower. Nothin' much happening outside, so let's put it on Spotify and see what R&B is being served up on my custom soul station.
We got some Luther Vandross, Earth, Wind and Fire, Bobby Womack, Roberta Flack and Donny Hathaway, Isaac Hayes, Zapp, Michael Jackson and Ashford and Simpson and while we sang and swayed to the sweet sound of 100% pure and unadulterated soul, we couldn't help but note that Nick Ashford, Michael Jackson, Isaac Hayes, Roger Troutman of Zapp, Donny Hathaway, Luther Vandross and Maurice White of Earth, Wind and Fire were all dead and gone.
All my favorites are dying off. Now Aretha done gone too and I miss her already, but I don't feel sorry for me. I feel sorry for all those young people today who know Aretha Franklin is an icon, but don't have Clue One why.
Damn shame really.
Hey Nineteen
That's 'Retha Franklin
She don't remember the Queen of Soul
It's hard times befallen
The soul survivors
She thinks I'm crazy
But I'm just growing old