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artist: Al Green
album: A Deep Shade Of Green
label: Hi Records UK
cat: HiBOOK12
year: 1996
genre: Soul
sub-genre: R&B, Funk
source: Cdda
grabber: Eac
encoder: LAME 3.90.3 --Alt-Preset Standard
quality: VBRkbps / 44,1kHz / Joint-Stereo
size: 306,1 MB
link: http://www.algreenmusic.com/
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│tracklist.
no. time track title
Cd1
01 02:27 What Am I Going To Do With Myself
02 03:07 One Woman
03 04:00 Are You Lonely Baby
04 02:49 True Love
05 03:16 God Is Standing By
06 02:53 Tired Of Being Alone
07 03:20 Let's Stay Together
08 03:20 Old Time Lovin'
09 03:43 I've Never Found A Girl
10 06:24 How Can You Mend A Broken Heart
11 03:48 Judy
12 03:08 Look What You Have Done For Me
13 03:16 I'm Still In Love With You
14 03:38 What A Wonderful Thing Love Is
15 04:16 Simply Beautiful
16 06:32 For The Good Times
17 03:19 One Of These Good Old Days
18 03:19 You Ought To Be With Me
19 03:07 Call Me (Come Back Home)
20 04:18 Here I Am (Come and Take Me)
Cd2
01 03:47 Have You Been Making Out Ok
02 03:14 I'm So Lonely I Could Cry
03 05:36 Funny How Time Slipps Away
04 02:49 So Good To Be Here
05 04:01 Home Again
06 03:31 Free At Last
07 05:38 Unchained Melody
08 03:01 Sha-La-La (Make Me Happy)
09 03:57 God Blessed Our Love
10 03:21 I'm Hooked On You
11 03:06 L-O-V-E (Love)
12 03:21 I Wish You Whre Here
13 04:22 Strong As Death (Sweet As Love)
14 04:09 Could I Be The One
15 03:06 There Is Love
16 06:38 The Love Sermon
17 07:49 I Didn't Know
18 03:30 There Is No Way
Cd3
01 05:18 Together Again
02 04:11 I'd Fly Away
03 03:28 Soon As I Get Home
04 04:28 Something
05 03:39 Have A Good Time
06 04:38 Nothing Takes The Place Of You
07 04:52 Belle
08 03:44 Feels Like Summer
09 07:30 Dream
10 04:11 To Sir With Love
11 03:00 Up Above My Head
12 02:56 So Good To Be Here
13 03:21 I'll Be Standing By
14 04:57 Eli's Game
15 03:21 Silent Night
16 06:27 People Get Ready
17 05:27 The Spirit Might Come-On and On
total time: 224:24 min
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│release notes.
6' x 10' book style three CD box features 55 of his best recordings
for '70s soul label 'Hi', including all seven of his top 10 hits
for them, 'Let's Stay Together', 'Look What You Done For Me', 'I'm
Still In Love With You', 'You Ought To Be With Me', 'Call Me',
'Here I Am' & 'Sha-La-La', plus the top 20s 'Tired Of Being Alone'
& 'L-O-V-E' andmore! 'What Am I Going To Do With Myself', 'One
Woman', 'AreYou Lonely For Me Baby', 'True Love', 'God Is Standing
By', 'Old Time Lovin'', 'I've Never Found A Girl', 'How Can You
Mend A Broken Heart', 'Judy', 'Simply Beautiful' and 36 more dope
tracks.
The music on this work is his absolute soul. Listen to the
yearnings from in the beginning of his career, his restored faith
in God and the love he has for music. Al invites you into the soul
of his life..enJOY!:.
About AL Green:
Al Green was the first great soul singer of the '70s and arguably
the last great Southern soul singer. With his seductive singles for
Hi Records in the early '70s, Green bridged the gap between deep
soul and smooth Philadelphia soul. He incorporated elements of
gospel, interjecting his performances with wild moans and wails,
but his records were stylish, boasting immaculate productions that
rolled along with a tight beat, sexy backing vocals, and lush
strings. The distinctive Hi Records sound that the vocalist and
producer Willie Mitchell developed made Al Green the most popular
and influential soul singer of the early '70s, influencing not only
his contemporaries, but also veterans like Marvin Gaye. Green was
at the peak of his popularity when he suddenly decided to join the
ministry in the mid-'70s. At first, he continued to record secular
material, but by the '80s, he was concentrating solely on gospel.
During the late '80s and '90s, he occasionally returned to R&B, but
he remained primarily a religious performer for the rest of his
career. Nevertheless, Green's classic early- '70s recordings
retained their power and influence throughout the decades, setting
the standard for smooth soul.
Green was born in Forest City, Arkansas, where he formed a gospel
quartet, the Green Brothers, at the age of nine. The group toured
throughout the South in the mid- '50s, before the family relocated
to Grand Rapids, Michigan. The Green Brothers continued to perform
in Grand Rapids, but Al's father kicked the boy out of the group
after he caught his son listening to Jackie Wilson. At the age of
16, Al formed an R&B group, Al Green & the Creations, with several
of his high-school friends. Two Creation members, Curtis Rogers and
Palmer James, founded their own independent record company, Hot
Line Music Journal, and had the group record for the label. By that
time, the Creations had been re-named the Soul Mates. The group's
first single, "Back Up Train," became a surprise hit, climbing to
number five on the R&B charts early in 1968. The Soul Mates
attempted to record another hit, but all of their subsequent
singles failed to find an audience.
In 1969, Al Green met bandleader and Hi Records vice president
Willie Mitchell while on tour in Midland, Texas. Impressed with
Green's voice, he signed the singer to Hi Records, and began
collaborating with Al on his debut album. Released in early 1970,
Green's debut album Green Is Blues showcased the signature sound he
and Mitchell devised -- a sinewy, sexy groove highlighted by horn
punctuations and string beds that let Green showcase his remarkable
falsetto. While the album didn't spawn any hit singles, it was
well-received and set the stage for the breakthrough success of his
second album. Al Green Gets Next to You (1970) launched his first
hit single, "Tired of Being Alone," which began a streak of four
straight gold singles. Let's Stay Together (1972) was his first
genuine hit album, climbing to number eight on the pop charts; its
title track became his first number one single. I'm Still in Love
With You, which followed only a few months later, was an even
greater success, peaking at number four and launching the hits
"Look What You Done for Me" and "I'm Still in Love With You."
By the release of 1973's Call Me, Green was known as both a
hitmaker and an artist who released consistently engaging,
frequently excellent, critically-acclaimed albums. His hits
continued uninterrupted through the next two years, with "Call Me,"
"Here I Am," and "Sha-La-La (Make Me Happy)" all becoming Top Ten
gold singles. At the height of his popularity, Green's former
girlfriend, Mrs. Mary Woodson, broke into his Memphis home in
October 1974 and poured boiling grits on the singer as he was
bathing, inflicting second-degree burns on his back, stomach and
arm; after assaulting Green, she killed herself with his gun. Green
interpreted the violent incident as a sign from God that he should
enter the ministry. By 1976, he had bought a church in Memphis and
had become an ordained pastor of the Full Gospel Tabernacle. Though
he had begun to seriously pursue religion, he had not given up
singing R&B and he released three other Mitchell-produced albums --
Al Green Is Love (1975), Full of Fire (1976), Have a Good Time
(1976) -- after the incident. However, his albums began to sound
formulaic, and his sales started to slip by the end of 1976, with
disco cutting heavily into his audience.
In order to break free from his slump, Green stopped working with
Willie Mitchell in 1977 and built his own studio, American Music,
where he intended to produce his own records. The first album he
made at American Music was The Belle Album, an intimate record that
was critically acclaimed but failed to win a crossover audience.
Truth and Time (1978) failed to even generate a major R&B hit.
During a concert in Cincinnati in 1979, Green fell off the stage
and nearly injured himself seriously. Interpreting the accident as
a sign from God, Green retired from performing secular music and
devoted himself to preaching. Throughout the '80s, he released a
series of gospel albums on Myrrh Records. In 1982, Green appeared
in the gospel musical Your Arms Too Short to Box With God with
Patti Labelle. In 1985, he reunited with Willie Mitchell for He Is
the Light, his first album for A&M Records.
Green tentatively returned to R&B in 1988 when he sang "Put a
Little Love in Your Heart" with Annie Lennox for the Bill Murray
comedy Scrooged. Four years later, he recorded his first
full-fledged soul album since 1978 with the U.K.-only Don't Look
Back. Al Green was inducted to the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in
1995. That same year, he released Your Heart's in Good Hands, an
urban contemporary record that represented his first secular album
to be released in America since Truth and Time. Though the album
received positive reviews, it failed to become a hit. Green did
achieve widespread recognition eight years later with his first
album for Blue Note, I Can't Stop. One and a half years, he
followed it with Everything's OK.
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