- Let's Stay Together - Single · 1971
- The Nice Guys (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) · 1972
- Soul Survivor · 1987
- Akeelah and the Bee (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) · 1975
- And the Message Is Love: The Best of Al Green · 1969
- Soul Survivor · 1987
- Back Up Train (Remastered) · 1967
- Give Me More Love · 2021
- kickin presents Hi Tide Groove: DJʼs Choice · 1975
- Give Me More Love · 2021
- And the Message Is Love: The Best of Al Green · 1985
- Listen: The Rarities · 1975
- And the Message Is Love: The Best of Al Green · 1994
Albums
- 2021
- 1992
- 1987
Artist Playlists
- Trace the journey of a true soul legend from Muscle Shoals to the pulpit.
- Candles lit. Bubbly on ice. Now set the mood with Al Green at his most romantic.
- Musicians from across the spectrum have been inspired by Al Green's seductive voice.
- Vocal dexterity and lithe grooves unite his whole catalogue.
- Raw soul and rollicking funk help form his timeless sound.
- There's just no way to take the soul out of this icon’s songwriting.
Singles & EPs
Compilations
Appears On
- The Canton Spirituals
About Al Green
In the '70s, singer Al Green transformed soul music, dispensing with machismo in favour of seductiveness, his creamy, silken croon spiked with church-like interjections, a deep sexuality lurking beneath a hushed vulnerability. Born in Arkansas in 1946, Green moved with his family to Michigan, where at age 10 he started singing with his brothers. He later formed a vocal group of his own; after his first couple of singles failed to connect, in 1969 he hooked up with Memphis producer Willie Mitchell, who signed him to Hi Records and began helping Green develop his own musical identity. Mitchell and his killer house band gave the singer a unique sound: lean grooves meticulously accented with lush strings, fat snare and horn punctuations that lag ever so slightly behind the beat. Green was given generous space to play with phrasing like it was putty. Beginning with his second album for the label, Al Green Gets Next to You, he released a string of hits, including “Let’s Stay Together” and “I’m Still in Love with You”, that have remained cultural markers and synonyms for intimacy decades later. By the mid-'70s, Green’s personal life had led him toward religion, and in 1976 he established the Full Gospel Tabernacle in Memphis. He continued to record secular music until 1979, at which point he dedicated himself fully to gospel, as Reverend Al Green. Starting in the late ’80s, he sporadically returned to the soul world, and in the 2000s he made a series of albums for Blue Note, including a reunion with Mitchell and another album made with Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson. He returned to the road in 2019, for the first time in seven years, carrying on a tradition of allowing audiences to sing the words to tunes that have become common currency.
- HOMETOWN
- Forrest City, AR, United States
- BORN
- 13 апреля 1946 г.
- GENRE
- R&B/Soul