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Al Green: Albums
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Given the ubiquity of Al Green in contemporary popular culture -- call him Generation Y's Barry White -- the constant appraisal of his career through greatest-hits compilations should be of little surprise. However, Green has received a notable amount of such attention. His "official" Greatest Hits album has been updated four times since its original release in 1975, each time with a different focus: The 1977 appendix Volume 2 simply added more of his hits; 1995's reissue combined the best of the two editions; 1998's More Greatest Hits focused on lesser recognized tracks; and the 2005 edition included rare video footage of the singer at various times in his career on a bonus DVD.
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After spending several years exclusively performing gospel, Green began to return to R&B. First, he released a duet with Annie Lennox, "Put A Little Love In Your Heart" for Scrooged, a Bill Murray film. His 1994 duet with country music singer Lyle Lovett blended country with R&B, garnering him ninth Grammy, this time in a pop music category. Green's first secular album in some time was Your Heart's In Good Hands (1995), released to positive reviews but disappointing sales, the same year Green was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
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Al shouldn't let his originals out of Sunday school these days, but he's always had a way with the covers. "Lean on Me" and the rushed, simplistic "Ain't No Mountain High Enough" are too obvious, but elsewhere he's his usual catholic self (that's a small C, Al--look it up); here he takes over "No Not One," which he found in an old church, and there "Up the Ladder to the Roof," which he found on an old Supremes album. And the uptempo country rollick he makes out of Joe South's "Don't It Make You Want to Go Home" is up there with the downcast urban plaint he made out of the Bee Gees' "How Can You Mend a Broken Heart."
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Belle Album THE Belle Album was his first self-production, and it stretches beyond the formula of his earlier albums, with many cuts based around Green's acoustic guitar work. Simultaneously, Green began reinventing his approach to arranging his music.
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In all, Al enjoyed six R&B chart-toppers out of some twenty-six hit singles from 1970 to 1979. Fourteen of Al's albums appeared on the nation's Top 200 charts, five of which were certified gold. Al's exciting 'live' performances garnered rave reviews and won him a loyal fan base throughout the world.
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