TRACKLIST
A1 Respect
A2 Drown In My Own Tears
A3 I Never Loved A Man (The Way I Loved You)
A4 Soul Serenade
A5 Don't Let Me Lose This Dream
A6 Baby, Baby, Baby
B1 Dr. Feelgood (Love Is A Serious Business)
B2 Good Times
B3 Do Right Woman - Do Right Man
B4 Save Me
B5 A Change Is Gonna Come
DESCRIPTION
"‘I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You’ runs the stylistic gambit without feeling Franklin is doing things just for show. The album isn’t trying to function as a resumé of her skills. Genre shifts feel organic and natural. “Don’t Let Me Lose This Dream” is built on a bossa nova groove, while “Do Right Woman Do Right Man” has a little country ballad flavor. “Dr Feelgood (Love Is A Serious Business)”—one of four songs penned by Franklin herself—is a bluesy belter. She might have been Queen of the genre, but pigeonholing Franklin in soul is like calling Sugar Ray Leonard just a welterweight. She could shuffle through styles as smooth as velvet. Everything is stamped with her own distinct character."