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Gets Next To You (CD)

By: Al Green (Artist)

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DISC 1 for Gets Next To You (CD) Album By Al Green (Artist)
1   I Can't Get Next To You  
2   Are You Lonely For Me Baby  
3   God is Standing By  
4   Tired of Being Alone  
5   I'm a Ram  
6   Driving Wheel  
7   Light My Fire  
8   You Say It  
9   Right Now, Right Now  
10   All Because  
 

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Review

Rolling Stone (3/6/03, p.72) - 5 stars out of 5 - "...Green's singing and the band's arrangements act in thrilling concert..."

Title Note

Personnel includes: Al Green (vocals); Teenie Hodges (guitar); Ed Logan (tenor saxophone); James Mitchell (baritone saxophone); Wayne Jackson (trumpet); Jack Hale (trombone); Charles Hodges (organ); Leroy Hodges (bass); Al Jackson (drums); Rhodes, Chalmers & Rhodes (background vocals).

Recorded in Memphis, Tennessee, Originally released on Hi (32062). Includes liner notes by Colin Escott.

GETS NEXT TO YOU, like Green's debut, overflows with cover songs that show this soulster to be a disciple of Otis Redding and Sam Cooke. Like Redding, Green pulled material from Motown (in this case, a vamped up version of the Temptations' "I Can't Get Next To You") along with less likely rock hits (Green unleashes his unique phrasing on the Doors' "Light My Fire"). Like Cooke, Green made ballads a specialty. "Tired Of Being Alone," which reached the top 20, was the first in a long string of Green ballads to float up the charts. Green's pleading falsetto, set above Teenie Hodges' understated guitar playing, a punchy horn section and creamy-sounding backing vocals, set the bar higher for all ballads recorded afterward.

Because he had such a mastery of slow songs, it's easy to overlook Green's funkier side, which shows up on the Stax-flavored "I'm A Ram" and a rollicking cover of Roosevelt Sykes' "Driving Wheel." And Green tipped his hat to the psychedelic soul movement of the early '70s by writing the Sly Stone-inspired "Right Now, Right Now."

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