RIP Aretha

As all too many blogs, news reports and commenters will note today, Aretha Franklin passed away today.   An omnipresent performer in the 60s and 70s, the "Queen of Soul" gave voice to a generation with such hits as Respect and Chain of Fools.  Oddly, my favorite was her rendition of a Carole King composition, You make me feel like a Natural Woman.  The song doesn't jibe with the aforementioned anthems of independent and proud women, but she sells the wistful daydreams as perhaps the ultimate respect women are due from the men who love them.   RIP Aretha, we may never see her combination of talent and soul again.