Much Anticipated New Aretha Franklin Album “Aretha: A Woman Falling Out Of Love” is Coming May 3rd, 2011

“ARETHA: A WOMAN FALLING OUT OF LOVE”

Arrives Exclusively at Walmart Stores and Walmart.com on Tuesday, May 3

Album Available Now for Pre-order on Walmart.com

DETROIT, MI  (April 25, 2011) – Aretha’s Records announced today that “ARETHA:  A WOMAN FALLING OUT OF LOVE,” the much-anticipated new album from the undisputed “queen of soul,” will be available exclusively at Walmart stores and Walmart.com beginning on May 3. Fans can pre-order “A WOMAN FALLING OUT OF LOVE” now on Walmart.com. The digital version of the album will be offered on iTunes, Amazon and other digital retailers on June 3.

“A WOMAN FALLING OUT OF LOVE,” features eleven tracks – including the debut single “How Long I’ve Waited” plus one bonus track. It’s Franklin’s 38th studio album in an amazing career that has seen her win no fewer than 18 Grammy® Awards. Quite recently, Rolling Stone published its list of the 100 Greatest Singers of All Time in which Aretha Franklin placed first.
The album, is the very first on the legendary artist’s own label, Aretha’s Records and is reflective of the great diversity of material and styles at which Aretha excels, offering smoldering ballads, sizzling blues-infused tracks as well as an acknowledgment of gospel roots in the duet “Faithful” with Karen Clark-Sheard. “A WOMAN FALLING OUT OF LOVE” is the Queen of Soul back at the top of her game and features, for the first time ever as a physical release, her historic 2009 Presidential Inaugural performance of “My Country ‘Tis Of Thee.” The late Jerry Wexler, the legendary producer, who worked with Aretha Franklin in the 1960’s once noted, “If you look over the arc of her career, there is no American musical artist who has achieved her level of accomplishment. It has been one triumph after another.” The new album reinforces Wexler’s statement in a very tangible way.

Read A. Scott Galloway’s Review of “Aretha: A Woman Falling Out Of Love” by Clicking HERE!

As the album’s executive producer, Franklin’s vision for the project was fulfilled in no uncertain terms.   She’s tapped into many genres of music that she has addressed during her vast and legendary career — pop, blues, jazz and, of course, soul.  The album is, clearly, a work that is contemporary and classic which is evidenced by her collaborations with both modern day hit makers and established masters.

Concurrent with the announcement of the forthcoming release of “A WOMAN FALLING OUT OF LOVE,” Aretha offered this Queenly advice to all mothers, daughters, sisters and girlfriends:

“OK ladies take a good look at the photo of me on this album; this is how you’re supposed to look when you’re a woman falling out of love.  Don’t sit by the phone waiting for him to call you, girlfriend; I want you to listen very closely to the lyrics of the songs on this album and you’ll hear a few good tips. Go out and have a ball!” – Love always, Ree Ree

ARETHA: A WOMAN FALLING OUT OF LOVE – TRACK LISTING:
1. How Long I’ve Waited – Written and Produced by Aretha Franklin
2. Sweet Sixteen – Written by Riley B. King and Joe Bihari, Produced by Aretha Franklin
3. This You Should Know – Written and Produced by Aretha Franklin
4. U Can’t See Me – Written and produced by Curtis Boone
5. Theme From A Summer Place – Lyrics by Mack Discant, Music by Max Steiner, Produced by Aretha Franklin.
6. The Way We Were – Written by Alan Bergman, Marilyn Bergman and Marvin Hamlisch, Produced and Arranged by Marty Paich
7. New Day – Written Kecalf Franklin Cunningham and Norman West, Produced by Brian Garrett and Joseph Hall
8. Put It Back Together Again – Written by Norman West
9. Faithful (featuring Karen Clark-Sheard) – Produced by Sanchez G. Harley and Co-Produced by Jacqui Whittman
10. His Eye Is On The Sparrow (Performed by Eddie Franklin) – Written by Charles H. Gabriel and Civilla H. Martin, Produced by Aretha Franklin
11. When Two Become One – Written by Curtis Boone
Bonus Track:
12. My Country ‘Tis of Thee – Lyrics by Samuel Francis Smith, Music from Thesaurus Musicus, 1744, Arrangement by Aretha Franklin and H.B. Barnum