Al Green

In afwachting van het nieuwe Al Green album - I can't stop, is hier een Al Green adoratie topic.

Al Green

Soul legend Al Green was born in Forrest City, Ark. in 1946 and began performing at age nine as part of his father's gospel group, the Green Brothers. During the mid/late 1950s the quartet toured the South, but the Green family later moved to Grand Rapids, Mich. and Al Green formed a new R&B group, Al Green and the Creations. The Creations became the Soul Mates, and in 1968 the group scored an R&B Top 5 single with "Back Up Train."

In 1969 Green began a solo career in close collaboration with producer Willie Mitchell, releasing his debut album Green Is Blues the following year. His 1970 follow-up Al Green Gets Next To You went gold thanks to the hit single "Tired of Being Alone," while 1972's Let's Stay Together reached the Top 10 when its title track hit No. 1.

Tragically, in October 1974 Green's former girlfriend, Mary Woodson, assaulted him in his home, burning him over much of his torso before killing herself. Shocked by this incident, Green found God and became a preacher at the Full Gospel Tabernacle in Memphis, where he still preaches to this day. Then one day in 1979 Green accidentally fell off the stage while performing in concert and barely avoided serious injury; convinced this turn of events was a message from God to abandon secular music, Green shifted his focus and began recording albums of a Christian nature, mostly gospel standards and religious pop and R&B tunes.

For I Can't Stop, Al Green's debut album for Blue Note Records, the dynamic, inimitable singer triumphantly returns to that glorious sound, reaching new heights in the process. The recording marks the historic reunion of Green and Mitchell, bringing them together for the first time since 1985, when they recorded the gospel album He Is the Light, and only the second time since 1976's Have a Good Time. That album came at the end of an eight-year partnership that created some of soul music's most treasured recordings, released on Mitchell's Hi Records, including Green Is Blues (1970), Al Green Gets Next to You (1972), Call Me and Livin' for You (1973), Al Green Explores Your Mind (1974), Al Green Is Love (1975) and Full of Fire and Have a Good Time (1976).
 
On the new album, Green and Mitchell again capture the unique sound they created three decades ago - a perfect blend of Memphis soul, gospel, blues, and early rock & roll. To do so, Green returned to Mitchell's Royal studios to sing in the same vocal booth, on the same microphone (No. 9, an RCA ribbon mic reserved for Green's use only) and with many of the same stellar musicians who played on the original Hi Records sessions.

Een nieuw Al Green album
Hopelijk is hij ook nog fit genoeg voor een Europese tour!

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Op woensdag 29 oktober 2003 23:15 schreef AcidFog het volgende:
Wow! Een nieuw Al Green album!
Wanneer, wanneer, wanneer, wanneer, wanneer, wanneer, wanneer???

Wat is de bron van je verhaal?

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