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Al Green - The Immortal Soul of Al Green (Box Set) (2004)

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Al Green - The Immortal Soul of Al Green (Box Set) (2004)

Genre: R&B/Blues | 4CDs | Release: 2004 | MP3 320 kbps | 657 MB

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.

Tracklist

DISC 1

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

DISC 2

1. I'm Still in Love With You

2. Love and Happiness

3. Simply Beautiful

4. Oh, Pretty Woman

5. Look What You Done For Me

6. Call Me (Come Back Home)

7. Funny How Time Slips Away

8. Here I Am (Come and Take Me)

9. I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry

10. You Ought to Be Me

11. Jesus Is Waiting

12. Livin' For You

13. Let's Get Married

14. Beware - (full length version)

DISC 3

1. Take Me to the River

2. So Good to Be Here

3. My God Is Real

4. Sha-la-la (Make Me Happy)

5. City, The

6. God Blessed Our Love

7. One Nite Stand

8. I'm Hooked on You

9. Mimi

10. Love Ritual

11. Rhymes

12. Could I Be the One?

13. L-O-V-E (Love)

14. Strong as Death (Sweet as Love)

15. Oh Me, Oh My (Dreams in My Arms)

16. I Gotta Be More (Take Me Higher)

17. Eli's Gone

18. Love Ritual - (remix)

DISC 4

1. Full of Fire

2. I'd Fly Away

3. That's the Way It Is

4. Together Again

5. Let It Shine

6. Have a Good Time

7. Keep Me Cryin'

8. Nothing Takes the Place of You

9. I Tried to Tell Myself

10. The Truth Marches On

11. Belle

12. Georgia Boy

13. Chariots of Fire

14. Loving You

15. All in All

16. To Sir With Love

17. Wait Here

18. King of All

19. Starting All Over Again - (previously unreleased)

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