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...
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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 wh...
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I took a day away yesterday. Bad head cold, expensive car problems...and they say trouble comes in threes. http://mog.com/Cody_B/blog/1199330As most of you know, our soul preacher Cody has thrown in the sweat drenched towel (at least for now, we hope...)Here's a big thanks to a guy who will be missed big time, Cody's knowledge of the musical spheros and generosity, in expanding appreciation of ...
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This should stop you cold. Don't mess with the Good Rev. Al Green. Scoop! Be fore warned. An "Atomic Funk Bomb" is coming.
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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...
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Al Green - Lay It Down(Blue Note, 2008)7 out of 10Ahmir "?uestlove" Thompson did not make his love for Amy Winehouse's Back to Black a secret when it first came out, before "Rehab" was an international smash. He claimed on his Myspace blog that Black was the record he wanted Christina Aguilera to make. Thompson supposedly also wanted to produce the comeback of Bill Withers, but instead ended up...
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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'.
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Tremblingly good stuff.
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I DO NOT EVEN KNOW WHOM I AM ANYMORETHIS SHIT SUCKS....... YEAH Ldis be me sometimes most times.I'm so tired of being aloneI'm so tired of on-my-ownWon't you help me girlJust as soon as you canPeople say that I've found a wayTo make you say that you love meHey baby, you didn't go for thatIt's a natural factThat I wanna come backShow me where it's at, babyI'm so tired of being aloneI'm so tired ...
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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...
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The Reverend Al Green giving the southern soul treatment to The Doors _Light My Fire_.
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I will not hide the fact that one of my favorite people at this little place called MOG is our very own KIDDO OF RAWK...........MASTER OF THE BEDROOM.................KING OF THE HEAD-RUB...........RULER OF THE CLASS-ROOM.............PLEASER OF THE LADIES...............the list goes on. His real name is Kevin Cooper and today is his birthday. I tried to pick the perfect song for this post but I ...
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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 do...
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... time to let it down, get loose, and bring on the weekend with some Friday evenin Funk.
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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 wou...
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