Maybe it’s unfair to reduce Etta James to one song, especially one that links her directly to Celine Dion. Yet, as inescapable as “At Last” has become, it’s impossible to exhaust. All the traces of what Etta James had done, and where she was headed, are present in that song, if only in trace form. It may not be all there was to her as an artist, but James wasn’t hiding anything there, either. And if her bitter life story and musical evolution are any indication, “At Last” tells it all, backward and forward. - Bethlehem Shoals

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