#332 Amazing Grace (Classic Album Dissection) & Willis Earl Beal Review
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Sound Opinions
4.3 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 6 April 2012
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Hosts Jim DeRogatis and Greg Kot conduct a Sound Opinions Classic Album Dissection of Aretha Franklin’s 1972 release Amazing Grace. They talk to author Aaron Cohen about the gospel masterpiece, which was recorded forty years ago. Later, they review the debut album from outsider artist Willis Earl Beale, "Acousmatic Sorcery."
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| 0:00.0 | What do you love about music? |
| 0:04.0 | To begin with, |
| 0:08.0 | everything. Everything. Putting on a great show is the most important thing you can do. One great rock show can change the world. |
| 0:32.0 | In January 1972, show can change the world. |
| 0:33.1 | In January 1972, Aretha Franklin recorded a set of gospel covers live in a church in |
| 0:38.8 | Los Angeles and it went on to become her best-selling album ever. |
| 0:42.6 | I'm Jim Diregatus from W.B.E.Z. |
| 0:44.4 | at Columbia College. |
| 0:45.6 | And I'm Greg Cott of the Chicago Tribune. |
| 0:47.6 | Today, Jim and I dissect one of the most important albums of the 1970s, |
| 0:51.4 | Aretha Franklin's Amazing Grace. Then we'll review a new album from. of the From W be Z Chicago and distributed by PRX, you're listening to sound opinions and time now for some |
| 1:05.8 | music news. Right, Right, right, right, in, right, in, |
| 1:15.0 | Right, in, |
| 1:18.0 | Right, Right, |
| 1:19.0 | Right, |
| 1:20.0 | Right, |
| 1:21.0 | Bight, Bye-bye-bye-bye-In-bye-In-B-I-M-I-Wy- |
| 1:27.0 | Right- bye- bye- |
| 1:29.4 | by-bye- |
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| 1:43.7 | gone from this fringe underground movement into an arena level attraction that |
| 1:48.8 | is drawing hundreds of thousands of people to events and tens of millions of dollars to the people |
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