Lee Mitchell

By Sean Plaistowe | May 19, 2015

  “Lo and behold, Al Green came out with ‘I’m So Tired of Being Alone’….Those songs I was supposed to sing….I just knew that it would have been a successful thing for me.”     In a parallel universe Lee Mitchell – not Al Green – emerged as the top male soul star of the…

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Aretha Franklin (1995)

By Sean Plaistowe | December 8, 2014

                      Aretha Franklin hates the new biography about her, “Respect” by David Ritz. She’s condemned it: “a very trashy book…full of lies and more lies about me.” I didn’t hate it. It’s the best book yet about the Queen of Soul. That said, I’m kind…

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