Al Green

Though not as celebrated as later classics such as I'm Still in Love, Gets Next to You is still achingly beautiful. Tracks such as "Tired of Being Alone" and "I Can't Get Next to You" are classic. Punchy hornlines, pleading organs and loose, funky guitar riffs complement Green's voice, which is perhaps the most seductive sound ever committed to record.

Al Green's first four albums are the beginning of the truly sublime rhythm-and-blues story of
the 1970s: It's a story about one of the most soulful voices in pop history - a rough yet
refined tenor -- combined with a mystically tight Memphis studio band. For generations of
inheritors (from Jodeci to U2) and lovers, Green, producer Willie Mitchell and the five-man
Hi Records house band set the benchmark for soul. "Al Green" means not only th... More >