What connects celebrity chefs and pop stars is their fine nose for ingredients, especially when hot and spicy ones are mixed with milder elements to create an aromatic result. A combination of sweet and funky is the secret of Al Greens gloriously sentimental and sensual pop songs, which in the sexually free Seventies were often referred to as songs to make love by. What swings along gently is, however, Al Greens subtly controlled falsetto, which he can tone right to the threshold of audibility.

But watch out! This music belts out some fiery sounds right from the very first number. The sinuous, swinging request in the brilliant hit single Call Me, the relaxed and groovy Stand Up, with its sharp wind interjections which demand ones unerring attention, are typical for Greens style, just as is his almost disturbing capability to gain comfort from loneliness (Im So Lonesome, I Could Cry). This rhythmically powered music can best be described as light, intensive, dynamic but never flashy (Your Love Is Like The Morning Sun). It finds its earthly culmination in soul (Im Waiting) and spiritual depth.

• 180 gram LP w/ Standard Sleeve
• Recording: 1973 at Royal Recording Studios, Memphis, TN, by Willie Mitchell

• Internal ID: JIT
• Format: Vinyl
• Format Detail: LP Black
• Handling Note: **Please allow an additional 5 business days for this item's shipment.**
• Genre: Funk