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...selling his soul to the devil at the crossroads. Then the jazz age: Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington and, later on, Benny Goodman and "Strange fruit hanging from the poplar trees." Midcentury, things start to rock with Chuck Berry, "Wop-bop-a-loo-bop a-lop bam boom!" the Beatles, Aretha Franklin, "a hard rain's a-gonna fall," Bob Marley, Stevie Wonder. It might be better to forget the '80s--the posturing heavy-metal bands, Debbie Gibson, "Let's get physical--physical," the guy with the haircut in Flock of Seagulls. Perhaps the remembered sounds of R.E.M., U2 and Prince...
Strange that something so alive now could have begun in a museum. In late 1997, Lauryn Hill was visiting Detroit to produce a song that she wrote for her childhood hero, Aretha Franklin. On the way to the airport, she stopped at the Motown Museum. The Supremes, Stevie Wonder, the Jackson 5--these were the performers she was reared on. She could picture their 45s scattered across her bed. "It was incredible to me and really inspiring," says Hill. Now she was ready to push forward on her own solo album...
...ARETHA FRANKLIN A Rose Is Still a Rose (Arista) On her latest album, Franklin teams up with some of the hottest producers in pop, including Sean ("Puffy") Combs, Dallas Austin and Jermaine Dupri. The rejuvenating cross-generational collaborations are more than a marketing move: this is Franklin's most rewarding album in more than two decades. The queen's long reign continues...
...dinner last week. Christopher John Farley and James Willwerth's report "Dead Teen Walking," the story of a young man who may have been wrongly convicted of murder, won both the Griot (the top award of the evening) and the Public Affairs award. Other TIME winners were stories on Aretha Franklin by Farley, Toni Morrison by Paul Gray, Michael Jordan by Joel Stein, "Kids and Race" by Farley and "Africa Rising" by Johanna McGeary and Marguerite Michaels...
...part of a series on this week's new CDs. But we're looking forward to her future albums. She has proved she can hit the heights; it would be nice to hear her explore the depths, to reach down and move us, as Marvin did, as Aretha still does. #1's shows she has the talent for it, if she dares...