Rhythm & Blues Show: Aretha Franklin

Another lady to celebrate in the final show in the month of March: Aretha Franklin celebrated her 70^th birthday at the weekend and launched herself into yet another phase of her recording career!

Also known as “The Queen Of Soul” her career began in the late ’50 / early 60’s and we will be looking at some of her earlier work in the middle hour of the Rhythm & Blues Show on Tuesday. Why wait until a legend dies before we acknowledge them?

FUNK

We will also hear some more from Hank Ballard & then some of James Brown’s early work, which followed straight on from it. James Brown is often credited with the first funk track(s) and as we have the “Funky 5 + 1” playing out fundraising for GFM in April it seems appropriate to go back to the some of roots of funk! Tune in for all this & more between 12 & 3 Tuesday.