Lady Soul

Franklin's twelfth album, released by Atlantic on 22 January 1968, with every track produced by Jerry Wexler and Tom Dowd as recording engineer. It stayed 16 weeks at number 1 on the R&B albums chart and reached number 2 on the pop chart, tying her earlier Atlantic album as her highest placing there. It sold more than a million copies in the United States.

Three singles came from it: Chain of Fools at number 2 on the Hot 100, (You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman at number 8, and (Sweet Sweet Baby) Since You've Been Gone at number 5. Ain't No Way, the B-side of the latter, reached number 16. Cissy Houston and the Sweet Inspirations sang backing vocals, with Franklin's sisters Carolyn and Erma, and Carolyn wrote Ain't No Way. Eric Clapton, then of Cream, is credited on guitar on Good to Me as I Am to You. Rhino reissued the album in a deluxe edition in 1995.

VH1 named it the 41st greatest album of all time in 2003. Rolling Stone placed it at number 85 in 2003 and 2012 and number 75 in 2020. Pitchfork ranked it 29th among the albums of the 1960s. It is in the 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die book.