For further example, you could go around calling Bonnie Raitt the ‘Queen of Roots Rock’ if you wanted, although perhaps her career has dipped into far too many different strands for her to have been the rightful beholder of such a title. Raitt is an acclaimed songwriter and performer, of course, but has shown her worth in a variety of ways, so how exactly would you refer to her? That’s because that position has already been taken by someone whom Raitt herself believes is the sole deserving person of such nomenclature. The ‘Queen of Soul’? No: as far as Raitt is concerned, Franklin was just ‘The Queen’ in general, and that’s a thoroughly deserved title to have bestowed upon her.