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Al Green

Immortal Soul of Al Green

Immortal Soul of Al Green Tracks
1. Back Up Train
2. Guilty
3. I Want To Hold Your Hand
4. One Woman
5. Get Back, Baby
6. Summertime
7. What Am I Gonna Do With Myself
8. I Can't Get Next To You
9. God Is Standing By
10. You Say It
11. Right Now, Right Now
12. Are You Lonely For Me Baby
13. Driving Wheel
14. Light My Fire
15. Ride Sally Ride
16. Tired Of Being Alone
17. I'm A Ram
18. So You're Leaving
19. I've Never Found A Girl
20. It Ain't No Fun To Me
21. Let's Stay Together
22. Old Time Lovin'
23. La-La For You
24. How Can You Mend A Broken Heart
25. I'm Still In Love With You
26. Love And Happiness
27. Simply Beautiful
28. Oh, Pretty Woman
29. Look What You Done For Me
30. Call Me (Come Back Home)
31. Funny How Time Slips Away
32. Here I Am (Come And Take Me)
33. I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry
34. You Ought To Be With Me
35. Jesus Is Waiting
36. Livin' For You
37. Let's Get Married
38. Beware
39. Take Me To The River
40. So Good To Be Here
41. My God Is Real
42. Sha-La-La (Make Me Happy)
43. The City
44. God Blessed Our Love
45. One Nite Stand
46. I'm Hooked On You
47. Mimi
48. Love Ritual
49. Rhymes
50. Could I Be The One?
51. L-O-V-E (Love)
52. Strong As Death (Sweet As Love)
53. Oh Me, Oh My (Dreams In My Arms)
54. I Gotta Be More (Take Me Higher)
55. Eli's Game
56. Love Ritual (remix)
57. Full Of Fire
58. I'd Fly Away
59. That's The Way It Is
60. Together Again
61. Let It Shine
62. Have A Good Time
63. Keep Me Cryin'
64. Nothing Takes The Place Of You
65. I Tried To Tell Myself
66. The Truth Marches On
67. Belle
68. Georgia Boy
69. Chariots Of Fire
70. Loving You
71. All In All
72. To Sir With Love
73. Wait Here
74. King Of All
75. Starting All Over Again
Al Green - Immortal Soul of Al Green
Immortal Soul of Al Green Review
The careers of most soul greats are marked by a struggle to reconcile opposite impulses--sanctified piety and earthly lust, down-home grit and urbane polish, bluesy pain and carefree jubilation. Throughout the '70s Al Green floated above such contradictions by blithely imagining that they didn't exist. The ecstatic good will with which Green's voice overflowed couldn't be neatly categorized; it contained the sacred, the erotic, and the just plain old friendly. Similarly smooth and rough vocal tones were, for him, equally valuable devices with which to seduce the listener, and his fluid technique was matched by Hi Records producer Willie Mitchell. Sheathing raw soul within velveteen strings, the Hi sound didn't so much combine elements of Stax gutbucket and Philly International suavity as meld the styles whole.

Green's '70s output is near-flawless, which makes compiling him a challenge--why not just go out and buy a handful of his classic albums? Rather than rise to that challenge, the 1997 four-disc set Anthology acknowledged defeat with a hodgepodge of hits, misses, live tracks, and outtakes. All business, The Immortal Soul of Al Green takes a different tack, presenting a genuine overview: seventy-five tracks, including practically every charting hit, in rough chronology. You can hear the early Green, a rough-and-ready southern soul man, grow comfortable within the smoother Hi formula. And you can hear the later Green, tiring of that formula, coast into the late '70s (brilliantly, but coasting regardless) until he steps away from Mitchell to record The Belle Album, a stripped-down masterpiece based around his own acoustic guitar. The set is unified by Green's unwavering sensibility, which, through it all, radiates both comforting warmth and tingling excitement--yet another pair of varied traits Green refused to acknowledge as opposites. --Keith Harris



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another Great Box Set on Al Green
5
can never say enough about Al Green. he truly is one of the Greatest Musical Talents that I have Ever heard. His voice takes you back&yet it still sounds fresh right now.He moves you with so many directions&Has so much soul just flowing from withing.you can never get tired of hearing"Love&Happiness","Let's stay together","Full of Fire"etc... also much Props to Willie Mitchell&the tight Memphis Rhythm section that backed Al Green during His 70's Run.this is a Must have.
Posted by Anonymous, on 2004-10-24
Box sets or Al Green collections just don't get any better
5
Al Green really deserved a box set like this for a long time. He's had an unprecedented amount of hits and quality songs, even before he ventured into his Gammy winning gospel days. I could never find a greatest hits collection that had everything I wanted, so I ended up having to buy several and still fell short. I cannot think of another Box set that I've seen that is as complete as this one.

My only complaint is that they try to fit his songs into "Sex", "Love", "Salvation" & "Soul". You couldn't really break all of his songs down like this, so they end up making odd pairings like "God Is Standing By" on the Sex disc. They should have done a better job at matching the themed discs or just not worried about naming them at all. But, the booklet is pretty extensive and the packaging is done really nicely. Even better is the quality of the recordings, which sound better than ever! This alone should be enough for the die-hard fan to get this.

Nothing is missing from this collection; the songs are in their complete original form (no short single versions of "Let's Stay Together" or "Beware"). The only track I can remotely think of that I'd like to be on here is "Free At Last" and I'm sure huge Al Green fans might have one obscure favorite that don't show up here. But, it doesn't get better than this. If you enjoy Al Green & love soul music, making the big step now to get the box set is defiantly worth it. Even with all of his albums and greatest hits that I already have, this is STILL worth owning. For a fan of Al Green, soul music or any music this is an excellent gift.
Posted by Anonymous, on 2004-12-09

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