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April 22, 2005

The Immortals - The Greatest Artists of All Time: 65) Al Green

By Justin Timberlake
October 22, 2003

Hello, Ladies!

Al Green says the Lord has ordained his return as a love man
September 4, 2000

Al Green's Gotta Serve Somebody

The man with the greatest voice in popular music gave up his fame (and his women, and his cocaine) to serve the Lord 23 years ago. He spends most of his time preaching in a Memphis church. Will he ever make another great soul album? God only knows

Everything's OK

The rousing and arousing musical partnership of Al Green and producer Willie Mitchell in the Seventies was built around the high art of the lowdown groove. Yet it took these two soul giants a bit of time to rediscover their own groove. I Can't Stop -- their 2003 comeback collaboration -- was impress...

2005 RS: 4of 5 Stars

I Can't Stop

2003

The Love Songs Collection

2003

Lord Will Make a Way/Higher Plane [Raven]

2002

Anthology

1997

He Is the Light

1985

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To a greater extent than even his predecessors Sam Cooke and Otis Redding, Al Green embodies both the sacred and the profane in soul music. He was one of the most popular vocalists in the '70s, selling over 20 million records. AlGreen's wildly improvisational, ecstatic cries and moans came directly from gospel music, and in the late '70s he returned to the Baptist church as a preacher. He continue...

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