Aretha Franklin Sings The Great Diva Classics Tribute LP
Aretha Franklin Covers Adele and the arrangement is killer ! NEW YORK — Aretha Franklin is showing some R-E-S-P-E-C-T to her fellow divas: The Queen of Soul will release an album Oct. 21 covering classic songs from other female singers. That's right, Soul legend Aretha has shared a fiery cover version of Adele's "Rolling in the deep." Adele is one of the most acclaimed soul singers of her generation. But now she's earned major "Respect" from the all-time greatest. The most contemporary track is a reworking of Adele's colossal hit "Rolling In the Deep," which is the first single off the album. You can make a pretty strong case that Aretha Franklin is the strongest female pop singer — or, hell, the strongest pop singer of any gender — of all time. And on her new album Aretha takes on some of the best-known songs of peers like Etta James, Gladys Knight, and Barbra Streisand , as well as those of descendants like Alicia K...