One more Aretha story

Back around 2002 there was a benefit concert somewhere for something and a lot of local Detroit/Michigan singers were on the card. Aretha was performing and they wanted her to sing with a new up and comer from the Detroit area to bridge generations. Look, we all know what Kid Rock has become, a very uninteresting reactionary goof. He wasn’t always that way. Before the show Aretha walked up to Mr. Kid Rock and he started trembling (this is a story he shared w the Detroit Free Press). She came up to him and with her sly side eye told him, “I’m of the CHURCH and I will not perform with you if you are going to go out there and let loose with all the swearing you seem to enjoy.” Kid Rock said a lot of “Yes ma’ams” and “no ma’ams” and was on his best behavior which he said he already would have been because in his words, “Its Aretha Franklin.”

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