Back Up Train (CD) ~ Al Green (Artist) Cover Art

Master Hits: Al Green (CD)

By: Al Green (Artist)

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Track Listing

DISC 1 for Master Hits: Al Green (CD) Album By Al Green (Artist)
1   Back Up Train  
2   Hot Wire  
3   Stop And Check Myself  
4   Let Me Help You  
5   I'm Reachin Out  
6   Dont Hurt Me No More  
7   Don't Leave Me  
8   I'll Be Good To You  
9   Guilty  
10   That's All It Takes (Lady O)  
11   Get Yourself Together  
12   What's It All About  
13   Lover's Hideaway, A  
 

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Title Note

Liner Note Author: Anthony Heilbut.

Recording information: New York, New York (1967 - 1968).

Sometimes genius doesn't reveal itself right off the bat; the first

recordings of artists as monumental as Bob Dylan, Tom Waits, and David Bowie offered little hint of the greatness to come. Al Green's first

album, 1967's BACK UP TRAIN, doesn't hit any of the heights his

subsequent records would achieve either, but for an artist still in the

formative stages, it's pretty damn impressive nonetheless (much more so than the debuts of the aforementioned musical giants).

Green wouldn't find his signature style until moving to Hi Records and working with producer Willie Mitchell and the Hi rhythm section, so the supple, undulating sound that became Green's signature is absent here. Instead, we hear a much more straightforward soul sound influenced by Stax, Motown, and Green's ubiquitous gospel roots. Many of the arrangements hew closer to the punchy Otis Redding style that was all the rage in R&B at the time, and Green's vocal calisthenics sound completely at home in that setting. If Green never made another record, BACK UP TRAIN would probably still be regarded as a minor gem of '60s soul.

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