HOW SWEET THE SOUND IS IN ARETHA DOC ‘AMAZING GRACE’
Apr 06, 2019
3 minutes
Image: Jan Persson
After many dangers, toils and snares, the long-lost Aretha Franklin concert film “Amazing Grace” has finally seen the light, and good Lord is it good.
Filmed over two sessions in January 1972 at the New Temple Missionary Baptist Church in the Watts section of Los Angeles, it captures Franklin at the absolute apex of her power. The colossal accompanying double LP, which didn’t suffer the same fate as the footage, is already justly revered
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