Al Green - Call Me

Rolling Stone 500 Greatest Albums of All Time - Rated 290/500!


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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 Green's 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 Green's 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 one's unerring attention, are typical for Green's style, just as is his almost disturbing capability to gain comfort from loneliness ("I'm 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 (I'm Waiting) and spiritual depth.

Features:
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Musicians:
Al Green, vocals
Donna Rhodes, Sandra Rhodes, Charles Chalmers, background vocals
Wayne Jackson, trumpet
Andrew Love, Ed Logan, tenor sax
James Mitchell, baritone sax
Jack Hale, trombone
Howard Grimes, Al Jackson, drums
Leroy Hodges, bass
Charles Hodges, organ, piano
Tennie Hodges, guitar
Archie Turner, piano
The Memphis Strings

Selections:
Side 1:
1. Call Me (Come Back Home)
2. Have You Been Making Out O.K.
3. Stand Up
4. I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry
5. Your Love Is Like The Morning Sun
Side 2:
1. Here I Am (Come And Take Me)
2. Funny How Time Slips Away
3. You Ought To Be With Me
4. Jesus Is Waiting

Recording: 1973 at Royal Recording Studios, Memphis, TN, by Willie Mitchell