Al Green

Here's something sweet for this Sunday morning: Al Green doing up "I Want To Hold Your Hand" by The Beatles. The original hit me with its infectious greatness when I was about 10. But Green transforms the song's teenage innocence and nostalgia into something sexy and funky. The horn lines and that swelling in the bridge are enough to make you want to stay under those covers...
[Just to point out the obvious: it would be a fair point to argue that this is more a new creatio... MORE

The first preview of the upcoming new Al Green album is "Take Your Time" with Corinne Bailey Rae and is so divine! Al is in fine form while Corinne never sounded so deeply soulful. "Take Your Time" is from Lay It Down produced by Ahmir ?uestlove Thompson, out on Blue Note May 27th. The digital single is available now (places like Amazon). Tracklist: 1. Lay It Down (feat. Anthony Hamilton)
2. Just For Me
3. You've Got the Love I Need (feat. A... MORE

It's been nearly a year since Al Green gave Billboard info on his new album Lay It Down, which was being produced by Questlove of The Roots. I don't remember the specifics, but I DO remember Al saying the music "was like fresh cream from a cow's titty". I'm not exactly sure what that meant, but it sounded good enough to embed itself into my memory. I won't have to wonder much longer, because Lay It Down will hit stores on May 27th via Blue Note records. Below you'll find a ... MORE

little al green while reading da news online..nothing of import just looks like everyone missed a great headline: Recession? Does a Bear Sterns Shit in The Woods? or Is a Bear Sterns Catholic?

Blue Note and Al Green revealed more details today about his upcoming new album: As previously reported, Ahmir Thompson - aka ?uestlove - produced the album with Green at the Electric Ladyland studios in NYC . Today we learn that the album is titled Lay It Down, it features duets with Corinne Bailey Rae, John Legend and Anthony Hamilton and it will be released by Blue Note on May 27th. Mr. Qool ?uest Love posted a video of drumming at the recording sesh waaaaaay back ... MORE

When Al Green turned away from secular music toward the end of the 70's, a lot of folks turned away from Al Green.
On a purely musical level those folks missed out.
If you caught the direction the Rev. was going in his last few secular records,self-produced with some of his own acoustic guitar playing and hints of Funk (The Belle Album and Have a Good time), his first gospel records weren't a whole lot different.
Fact is, he was singing better than ever. Check these tunes... MORE

I was accidentally watching the TV show "Jesse" (starring Christina Applegate) one night, several years ago, and I accidentally kept watching the damn thing, and I can't even recall the plot now, it has morphed into mush, but at one point, toward the end of this particular episode, Christina Applegate is having a potential moment with her love interest, and this song starts playing. The delicate guitar-drum intro had me hooked all by itself, but then the first words are sung,... MORE

Al Green has been recording a new album with ?uestlove on the production! Green says the new album is about "love and happiness, but the real kind. According to an article in the Belfast Telegraph:

"My next record is about the love and the happiness," he says. " My record is about the everyday life of a girl, guy, living together with one kid – we're not married yet but we're working on it, I'll drop off the kids if you'll pick them up. That's what my music is about – to

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Say you have to be at work at six-thirty in the morning. And say you go to bed at ten-thirty. Then let's say you look at the clock and it says eleven-thirty, and you think to yourself, "Wow, I'm pretty much not tired." Say all those things happen, and when they happen, what do you do? Do you think to yourself, "Boy, I bet I know someone else who isn't sleeping, and I bet that someone else wouldn't be averse to drinking gin until last call?" Do you, moments after havi... MORE

Tremblingly good stuff.

The Reverend Al Green giving the southern soul treatment to The Doors _Light My Fire_.

I searched for this record high and low for several years before I found it. I actually first heard this several years ago on a public radio station, of all places. (It would be right at home on Felix Hernandez's Rhythm Revue, but I'm almost certain I did not hear it on that show.) Actually, I shouldn't slight public radio as a means of discovering news music. I have called many a NPR affiliate to track down music metadata on some outro music that completed a new segme... MORE

Baileys on Ice
3 1/2oz of Baileys Orig Irish Creme
Pour over ice
Combine in Rocks glass

A friend sent me two free iTunes songs the other day, so I figured I would cash in at the 1.29 counter, you know what I mean? My overall impression of iTunes plus is that the EMI selections are pretty tired. The only genre that lead to interesting browsing was the back catalog of r&b and soul, mostly 70's era at that. Of course I did get two free Al Green tunes, so I am not complaining, but I don't see a future for this apple venture unless they find some more vend... MORE