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The careers of most soul greats are marked by a struggle to reconcile opposite impulses--sanctified piety and earthly lust+ down-home grit and urbane polish+ bluesy pain and carefree jubilation. Throughout the "70s Al Green floated above such contradictions by blithely imagining that they didn"t exist. The ecstatic good will with which Green"s voice overflowed couldn"t be neatly categorized; it contained the sacred+ the erotic+ and the just plain old friendly. Similarly smooth and rough vocal tones were+ for him+ equally valuable devices with which to seduce the listener+ and his fluid technique was matched by Hi Records producer Willie Mitchell. Sheathing raw soul within velveteen strings+ the Hi sound didn"t so much combine elements of Stax gutbucket and Philly International suavity as meld the styles whole.<p> Green"s "70s output is near-flawless+ which makes compiling him a challenge--why not just go out and buy a handful of his classic albums? Rather than rise to that challenge+ the 1997 four-disc set <I>Anthology</I> acknowledged defeat with a hodgepodge of hits+ misses+ live tracks+ and outtakes. All business+ <I>The Immortal Soul of Al Green</I> takes a different tack+ presenting a genuine overview: seventy-five tracks+ including practically every charting hit+ in rough chronology. You can hear the early Green+ a rough-and-ready southern soul man+ grow comfortable within the smoother Hi formula. And you can hear the later Green+ tiring of that formula+ coast into the late "70s (brilliantly+ but coasting regardless) until he steps away from Mitchell to record <I>The Belle Album</I>+ a stripped-down masterpiece based around his own acoustic guitar. The set is unified by Green"s unwavering sensibility+ which+ through it all+ radiates both comforting warmth and tingling excitement--yet another pair of varied traits Green refused to acknowledge as opposites. --<I>Keith Harris</I>
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Al Green's Albums
1972 Am Gold
Hollywood&quot;s Hottest Hits - Original Soundtrack Hits From Today&quot;s Top Films
Sounds of the Seventies : 1972
Soul (Old Navy)
Roadtrip One

Al Green Album Editorial:
Various Artists / Roadtrip One - Banana Republic Year: 1998 Track Title 1. Face The Sun -- The Grid 2. Nightclubbing -- Iggy Pop 3. To All The Girls -- Wyclef Jean Feat. The Refugee Allstars 4. This Life -- Mandalay 5. Besame Mucho -- Xavier Cugat His Orchestra 6. Friction -- Morcheeba 7. Lets Stay Together -- Al Green 8. Secret Tear -- Aria 9. Hercules -- Aaron Neville 10. Je Nen Connais Pas La Fin -- Jeff Buckley 11. Serena -- Duncan Sheik 12. Nadie Como Ella -- Marc Anthony 13. Live -- Lenny Kravitz
Art Laboe&quot;s - Dedicated to You - Volume 4
Let&quot;s Stay Together/ I&quot;m Still in Love With You
[2 Cd Soul Pack] Al Green - I Can&quot;t Stop / Sam Moore &quot;The Lost Solo Album&quot; Plenty Goo
Sounds of the Seventies
Rhythm &amp; Soul: The Absolute Best
History of Love [Various]
Body &amp; Soul: Sweet Embrace
Al Green&#43; Legends of Soul
The Best of Rhythm &amp; Blues/volume 2
Blockbuster Summer Series: 70&quot;s R&amp;B

Al Green Album Editorial:
Created by Moonlight Entertainment Sales
Roots of Hip Hop Vol. 2
Planet Hollywood - Favorite Movie Tracks/
AM Gold : 1973
Love Songs After Dark
Al Green Greatest Hits Vol. 1
Ultimate Soul Classics Volume III
Traveller - Music From The Motion Picture
The Gospel Soul of Al Green
The Best of Contemporary Christmas
Sweet &quot;70&quot;s Soul 2 cds
Classic R&amp;B Oldies From the 70&quot;s - Volume 2
Soul Hits of the 70s: Didn&quot;t It Blow Your Mind! Vol. 1-20 [Complete Set]
Gospel Concert
20th Century Masters
The Belle Album
Vol. 3-Legendary Hi Albums: Full of Fire/Have a Go
Legendary Hi Albums&#43; Vol. 2
The Legendary Hi Albums
Love &amp; Happiness: The Best of Al Green
Truth N&quot; Time
Have a Good Time
Al Green Is Love
Livin&quot; for You
Love &amp; Happiness-Best
Al Green&quot;s Greatest Hits (CD+DVD)
I&quot;ll Never Get Out of This World Alive: Hank Willliams Revisited
Back to Back
Simply Beautiful: The Love Songs
The Hitchhiker&quot;s Guide to the Galaxy

Al Green Album Editorial:
The popular Hitchhiker books by the late Douglas Adams inspired the engagingly quirky score by Joby Talbot. In addition to the score the CD features: Shoo-Rah Shoo-Rah by Betty Wright; Here I Am (Come and Take Me) by Al Green; Magic Moments from Perry Como; So Long and Thanks for All the Fish by Neil Hannon; Careless Talk and Vote Beeblebrox by Neil Hannon Douglas Payne and Andy Dunlop; and Reasons to be Miserable (His Name is Marvin) by Stephen Fry. P Joby Talbot began writing and performing in the early 90s working with artists such as Tom Jones Paul McCartney and producer Nigel Godrich. In 2000 his score to the primetime British comedy The League of Gentlemen won the Royal Television Society Award for Best Title Music. The British Film Institute commissioned Talbot to compose a new score for Alfred Hitchcocks silent classic The Lodger. As a classical composer he has worked with all the major U.K. orchestras and has been commissioned by the prestigious BBC Proms Festival.
Everything&quot;s Ok

Al Green Album Editorial:
The great soul singer made his secular comeback with 2002s II Cant Stop but IEverythings OK is truly Al Greens return to form. Green left the concert stage for the pulpit in 1979 and while his pretty falsetto reading of Joe Cockers You Are So Beautiful could easily be holy praise he makes it clear in his asides that hes keeping things on a strictly earthly plane this time. Twenty-eight years after Love and Happiness these satisfying songs glide on those emotions as Green celebrates joy and carnal desire. He couldnt be clearer than in numbers like I Wanna Hold You. When he sings about lovemaking his voice seems buoyed by helium its so light high and soaring. Green and producer Willie Mitchell made magic together at Memphiss Hi Records in the 70s with their mix of Greens buttery tones and ecstatic cries and deep percussion- horn- and keyboard-swathed grooves. They do it again here repeatedly capturing the élan of their heyday on numbers like the title track and Build Me Up. If Greens new missionary work is putting a little love in our hearts during these turbulent conflicted times this reassuringly titled CD is a great start. Ted Drozdowski
Hits Of Al Green (Karaoke)
Immortal Soul of Al Green

Al Green Album Editorial:
The careers of most soul greats are marked by a struggle to reconcile opposite impulses--sanctified piety and earthly lust down-home grit and urbane polish bluesy pain and carefree jubilation. Throughout the 70s Al Green floated above such contradictions by blithely imagining that they didnt exist. The ecstatic good will with which Greens voice overflowed couldnt be neatly categorized; it contained the sacred the erotic and the just plain old friendly. Similarly smooth and rough vocal tones were for him equally valuable devices with which to seduce the listener and his fluid technique was matched by Hi Records producer Willie Mitchell. Sheathing raw soul within velveteen strings the Hi sound didnt so much combine elements of Stax gutbucket and Philly International suavity as meld the styles whole.p Greens 70s output is near-flawless which makes compiling him a challenge--why not just go out and buy a handful of his classic albums? Rather than rise to that challenge the 1997 four-disc set IAnthology acknowledged defeat with a hodgepodge of hits misses live tracks and outtakes. All business IThe Immortal Soul of Al Green takes a different tack presenting a genuine overview: seventy-five tracks including practically every charting hit in rough chronology. You can hear the early Green a rough-and-ready southern soul man grow comfortable within the smoother Hi formula. And you can hear the later Green tiring of that formula coast into the late 70s (brilliantly but coasting regardless) until he steps away from Mitchell to record IThe Belle Album a stripped-down masterpiece based around his own acoustic guitar. The set is unified by Greens unwavering sensibility which through it all radiates both comforting warmth and tingling excitement--yet another pair of varied traits Green refused to acknowledge as opposites. --IKeith Harris
Back to Back Hits: Al Green &amp; Bobby Womack
Al Green Explores Your Mind
Call Me
Love Songs
Shades of Al Green
Love: The Essential
The Absolute Best
Soul Singles
I Can&quot;t Stop

Al Green Album Editorial:
The highlight of II Cant Stop Al Greens reunion with producer-arranger Willie Mitchell the architect of his deathless 70s hits is My Problem is You. Over six and a half minutes Green roars wails and rambles through a midtempo exploration of a seemingly unsolvable riddle--the love of a woman and its hold on him. In great voice his high-end barely touched by time he makes every moment count over these dozen originals; often lacking the layer of eccentricity that colored tracks as diverse as I Cant Get Next to You and Belle the songs still ring with the Reverends authority. Mitchells grooves add to the ecstatic mood especially when the thumping bottom-end syncopation of a track like Million to One suggests that of oh Look What You Done for Me. The first time this pair has worked together since a 1985 gospel album II Cant Stop blows away the dust and finds more life and gutbucket flash in a seemingly inexhaustible vein. Rickey Wright
I Can&quot;t Stop/I&quot;d Still Choose You
Back to Back Hits
Unchained Melodies
Unchained Melody [Collectables]
The Very Best of Love
Let&quot;s Stay Together
Green Is Blues
I&quot;m Still in Love With You
Gets Next to You
The Love Songs Collection
Trust in God / White Christmas
Precious Lord

Al Green Album Editorial:
Its the First Time on CD for Two of Rev. Greens Gospel Classics. 1982s Precious Lord Won the Grammy for Best Gospel Album and 1983s ill Rise Again is One of Green Greatest Gospel Achievements and Met with Universal Praise.


Al Green Album Editorial:
Precious Lord cut in Nashville with predominantly country musicians won the 1982 Grammy Award for Best Gospel Album. And 1983s Memphis-made Ill Rise Again still stands as perhaps Greens greatest Gospel music achievement to date. Both albums make their CD debut in an attractive package with a sleevenote by Blues and Soul Magazine writer Tony Rounce. Cream/Hi Records. 2002.
Lord Will Make a Way: Higher Plane
Mr Lucky
Essential
The Essential Al Green
Lord Will Make a Way / Higher Plane

Al Green Album Editorial:
Import two-fer includes the Hi Records classics The Lord Will Make A Way (1980) Higher Plane (1981) both deleted domestically.
Back Up Train
Back to Back Hits: Gospel
Love &amp; Happiness
Gospel Collection
Testify: The Best of the A&amp;M Years
Feels Like Christmas
Don&quot;t Look Back

Al Green Album Editorial:
Import exclusive 1994 compilation featuring 13 tracks Best Love Love Is A Beautiful Thing Waiting On You What Does It Take Keep On Pushing Love You Are My Everything One Love People In The World Give It Everything Your Love Fountain Of Love Dont Look Back Love In Motion.
The Very Best of Al Green
Listen to the Rarities

Al Green Album Editorial:
Thanks in large part to Reverend Als soul classic Lets Stay Together being prominently featured in the hit film Pulp Fiction a newfound appreciation interest in this RB legend amongst both Baby Boomers rediscovering him and Gen Xers yearning for musical sustenance in a world overrun by a swarm of hollow teenyboppers and bland alternative rockers. Thus Listen - The Rarities is an ideal compilation for disciples new old looking to expand their collection of quality recordings by the original Rev as it contains a whopping 18 rare tracks remixes and cuts that were unreleased at the time of the performance. Best of all no other retrospective like this exists anywhere in the world! 2000 release. Standard jewel case.
Take Me to the River

Al Green Album Editorial:
Yet another compilation of Al Greens classic Hi Records work from the 70s the double-CD autobiography tie-in ITake Me to the River serves more as a substitute for than a supplement to his IGreatest Hits and IMore Greatest Hits. However you get these tracks though get em: Green producer Willie Mitchell and the celebrated Hi rhythm section practically redefined the sensuous and the sinuous in soul music. In addition to timeless singles such as Lets Stay Together Tired of Being Alone and Look What You Done for Me IRiver also collects lesser-known but equally magical slices of sexy romance such as the title track and Im Glad Youre Mine. While not as full a portrait of this one-of-a-kind artist (and man) as the three-CD IAnthology its a worthy introduction. Rickey Wright
Free Soul
The Hi Singles A&quot;s and B&quot;s

Al Green Album Editorial:
UK compilation for the great soul singer. Comprised of his 70s era recordings for Hi Records produced by the man who signed him Willie Mitchell. Great sleeve notes with many rarely seen photos. 43 tracks including I Want To Hold Your Hand and Livin For You. 2000 release. Standard jewel case.
Soul Survivor
Al Green - Greatest Gospel Hits

Al Green Album Editorial:
Al Greens father once kicked him out of his earliest gospel group after catching him listening to Jackie Wilson. He need not have worried about Al abandoning his spiritual roots as this new collection proves. The quivering whispering falsetto--itself a soul standard--sounds true to form. Most of the cuts come from the reverends more recent output in which the digital 80s sound is prominent. There are a few of the Willie Mitchell/Hi-era productions that sound musically closer to the soul masters most significant singles. From the tight uptempo funk of Chariots of Fire to the transcendental version of Amazing Grace Green proves he can still bring the house down quicker than Lots wife looking back on Gomorrah. Though some of the majesty is lost in the production Al Green still finds a way to make gospel sound... sexy. Marc Calhoun
Master Hits: Al Green
True Love: A Collection

Al Green Album Editorial:
18 of the great soul vocalists best for the Hi label digitally remastered including Lets Stay Together Sha-La-La (Make Me Happy) How Can You Mend A Broken Heart? and Simply Beautiful. Over an hour of music. 1999 release.
Al Green - The Greatest Hits [Hi]

Al Green Album Editorial:
Re-release of the original Hi (US) and London Decca (UK) Greatest Hits collection.
Hi Masters

Al Green Album Editorial:
15 of Reverend Als best for the Hi label all digitally remastered. Includes I Cant Get Next To You Tired Of Being Alone Take Me To The River I Stand Accused Have A Good Time and Belle. 1998 Cream/ Hi Records release.
Hi and Mighty: The Story of Al Green (1969-1978)

Al Green Album Editorial:
Double disc retrospective of Reverend Als best for Hi 1969-1978. 37 tracks including the hits Take Me To The River Lets Stay Together and Tired Of Being Alone. Double slimline jewel case. 1998 Cream/ Hi Records Inc. release. The full title is Hi And Mighty - The Story Of Al Green (1969-78).


Al Green Album Editorial:
37 Track Anthology of Reverend Greens Outstanding and Varied Recording Career. His First Hits with Willie Mitchell and Hi Records Help Define the Memphis Sound for the Masses as the Sexy Al Green was a Regular Visitor to the Top of the Top 40 Charts. An Unusual Set of Life Changing Events Persuded the Spiritual Green to Give Up his Secular Ways and Devote Himself to God and the Gospel. The Majority of his 80s Records were all Gospel Affairs Recorded for the Myrrh Label. Late in the Decade He in the 90s He Inched his was Back to the Secular and was Inducted Into the Rock N Roll Hall of Fame in 1995. This Collection Emphasizes his Most Fruitful Period with Mitchell and also Gives You Just a Taste of the 80s.
Al Green - More Greatest Hits
Good Will Hunting: Music From The Miramax Motion Picture

Al Green Album Editorial:
Movie soundtracks are chancy in that the music is often geared to specific parts of the film that are meant to evoke concurrent emotions; many dont hold up apart from their cinematic context. The trend of the past few years has been to gratuitously traipse down memory lane with the convenient stance that a hit parade of 70s funk will lend an otherwise bloodless film some street cred. Thankfully the soundtrack to IGood Will Hunting doesnt strive for fake urban cool; this film about white working-class Bostonians gets a mostly white working-class sound. The soundtrack effectively mirrors the half-filled desires and lives that the film capitalizes on: restlessness ennui doubt and unrequited love rule here. Elliot Smith contributes the most and the best songs beautiful weepers that outshine Danny Elfmans somber original score which makes only a few appearances. Alan E. Rapp
Very Best of
Rock of Ages
&quot;Al Green - Take Me to the River: Greatest Hits&#43; Vol. 2&quot;
Anthology

Al Green Album Editorial:
Al Green is one of those artists whose range and scope like those of James Brown or Johnny Cash seem almost too large for a three- or four-CD retrospective. But like Browns iStar Time or Cashs iEssential set iAnthology is a deeply satisfying overview of an important artists work. In addition to its generous helping of hits intriguing rarities (a great early single of I Want to Hold Your Hand a live medley of Lets Stay Together and the Carpenters Weve Only Just Begun) and early hints of the gospel career that would follow this sets final late-70s tracks the box offers interview excerpts that both outline Greens working methods and underscore his crazy-like-a-fox eccentricity. Its worth the price of the set to hear the singer explain the many practical lessons he learned from rock and soul. Rickey Wright
Tired of Being Alone
A Deep Shade of Green

Al Green Album Editorial:
6 x 10 book style three CD box features 55 of his best recordings for 70s soul label Hi including all seven of his top 10 hits for them Lets Stay Together Look What You Done For Me Im Still In Love With You You Ought To Be With Me Call Me Here I Am Sha-La-La plus the top 20s Tired Of Being Alone L-O-V-E andmore! What Am I Going To Do With Myself One Woman AreYou Lonely For Me Baby True Love God Is Standing By Old Time Lovin Ive Never Found A Girl How Can You Mend A Broken Heart Judy Simply Beautiful and 36 more
The Christmas Album
Full of Fire

Al Green Album Editorial:
Remastered Reissue of 1976 Release. Repackaged with New Liner Notes.


Al Green Album Editorial:
Digitally remastered reissue of the legendary soul vocalists 1976 album for the Hi label. Features new liner notes nine tracks including the top 30 title hit. 1999 release.
The Flip Side of Al Green
You Say It!: Raw Rare! and Unreleased!
Cover Me Green
Your Heart&quot;s in Good Hands

Al Green Album Editorial:
Al Greens 1993 European album IDont Look Back contains seven songs produced by David Steele and Andy Cox (of Fine Young Cannibals) four by Arthur Baker and two by Terry Manning. Five of the Steele and Cox tracks three of the Baker and none of the Manning were recycled for the belated U.S. release IYour Hearts in Good Hands. Supplementing the eight older numbers are two new songs the title tune produced by Narada Michael Walden and the song Could This Be Love written and produced by Jodecis DeVante Swing. Most of these producers deny Green the freedom he needs to improvise the quirky special moments he brings to his best work. Only Baker seems to understand what Green needs but their small triumphs are enough to lend hope that Green may have another great album in him yet. Geoffrey Himes
Al Green - Greatest Hits

Al Green Album Editorial:
One of the must-own soul albums IGreatest Hits is fattened with five extra tracks in this reissue. Al Green brought the Memphis Sound into the 70s by slightly softening it melding smooth funkiness with his miraculous voice and innate sensitivity: his love songs while perfect for the bedroom are as conversational as they are blatantly seductive. By adding the likes of Belle a 1977 single thats a near-goodbye to the pop life to the original lineup of Lets Stay Together Look What You Done for Me Call Me and the others this edition of IGreatest Hits also intriguingly fills out the story. Rickey Wright
Glory to His Name
Back to Back Hits: Al Green &amp; Teddy Pendergrass
And The Message Is Love
Al
Tokyo Live
He Is the Light
Here I Am
Unchained Melody
The Supreme Al Green: The Greatest Hits

Al Green Album Editorial:
1992 compilation on Demon featuring 18 of the soul legends best for the Hi label including Tired Of Being Alone I Cant Get Next To You How Can You Mend A Broken Heart and Lets Stay Together. Over 75 minutes worth of hits.
Al Green Gets Next To You

Al Green Album Editorial:
Remastered Reissue of this 1970 Release.


Al Green Album Editorial:
Remastered reissue of Reverend Als 1971 album for the Hi label. 10 tracks including the top 20 smash Tired Of BeingAlone and the hit I Cant Get Next To You. 1999 Demon Records release.
Gospel Soul
White Christmas

Al Green Album Editorial:
Pure loving and honest. Those words describe the spirit of this holiday--and the voice of this soul music giant. Al Green who became an ordained minister many years ago could be expected to put his all into songs of praise such as O Holy Night and Silent Night. On this collection however he gives equal time to more modern holiday favorites lingering languidly over the melodies of numbers such as Ill Be Home for Christmas and Winter Wonderland. The sounds are sweeter than the candy canes. David Sprague
Love Ritual
Love Is Reality
Al Green Is Love/Full of Fire
Al Green Sings the Gospel
Truth N Time
I&quot;ll Rise Again
One in a Million
Call Me/Livin&quot; for You
I Get Joy
Compact Command Performances: 14 Greatest Hits
Al Green - Greatest Hits 1
Al Green&quot;s Greatest Hits&#43; Vol. 2
From My Soul
Love Rituals 1968-76

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