{"product_id":"9781466862784","title":"I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You: Aretha Franklin, Respect, and the Making of a Soul Music Masterpiece","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eI Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You\u003c\/i\u003e, Aretha Franklin's first album for Atlantic Records and famed producer Jerry Wexler, was a pop and soul music milestone that jump-started Franklin's languishing career. Almost overnight, Aretha became a top-selling recording artist and a cultural icon. But the album almost didn't happen. Matt Dobkin has unearthed fascinating details about the recording session in Muscle Shoals, Alabama: about the volatile behavior of Aretha's manager\/husband, Ted White; about Aretha's reaction to the lack of black musicians in the session; and about how tempers and alcohol almost derailed the session with only a track and half in the can.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book goes far beyond anything that's been written about \"The Queen of Soul\" or her music before. \u003ci\u003eI Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You\u003c\/i\u003e is the story of a great achievement and includes scores of fresh interviews: Wexler, the session men from Muscle Shoals, Aretha's own musicians, and others. It gives insight into a star more complex and determined than her modern diva image would seem to indicate. Aretha, a teenage mother and daughter of a commanding preacher father, rose above her circumstances and transformed them into art. She gave the civil rights movement, already well under way in 1967 when the album came out, a passionate call to arms. And with \"Respect\"--along with the title track, one of the album's first two singles--she provided the burgeoning feminist movement with an enduring theme song.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe first serious, nonbiographical look at Aretha Franklin's work, \u003ci\u003eI Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You\u003c\/i\u003e will deepen even ardent fans' understanding of one of the great soul artists of our time, a direct descendant of Bessie Smith and Billie Holliday.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"St. Martin's Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47144000651504,"sku":"9781466862784","price":11.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781466862784_p0.jpg?v=1769891591","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781466862784","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}