ALBUMGive Me More LoveAl Green, F.A.M.E.'s Macedonian Symphonic Orchestra & Oleg Kondratenko
ALBUMLove Is RealityAl Green
ALBUMSoul SurvivorAl Green
ALBUMHe Is the LightAl Green
ALBUMTrust in GodAl Green
ALBUMFeels Like ChristmasAl Green
ALBUMI'll Rise AgainAl Green
ALBUMPrecious LordAl Green
ALBUMHigher PlaneAl Green
ALBUMThe Lord Will Make a WayAl Green
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Al Green Essentials
Trace the journey of a true soul legend from Muscle Shoals to the pulpit.
Al Green: Love Songs
Candles lit. Bubbly on ice. Now set the mood with Al Green at his most romantic.
Al Green: Influences
Raw soul and rollicking funk help form his timeless sound.
Inspired by Al Green
Musicians from across the spectrum have been inspired by Al Green's seductive voice.
Al Green: Deep Cuts
Vocal dexterity and lithe grooves unite his whole catalog.
Al Green: The Songwriters
There's just no way to take the soul out of this icon’s songwriting.
Al Green: Sampled
Their original tunes have been the source material for some of modern music’s biggest hits.
Artist Biography
In the '70s, singer Al Green transformed soul music, dispensing with machismo in favor of seductiveness, his creamy, silken croon spiked with church-like interjections, a deep sexuality lurking beneath a hushed vulnerability. Born in Arkansas in 1946, Green moved with his family to Michigan, where at age 10 he started singing with his brothers. He later formed a vocal group of his own; after his first couple of singles failed to connect, in 1969 he hooked up with Memphis producer Willie Mitchell, who signed him to Hi Records and began helping Green develop his own musical identity. Mitchell and his killer house band gave the singer a unique sound: lean grooves meticulously accented with lush strings, fat snare, and horn punctuations that lag ever so slightly behind the beat. Green was given generous space to play with phrasing like it was putty. Beginning with his second album for the label, Al Green Gets Next to You, he released a string of hits, including “Let’s Stay Together” and “I’m Still in Love with You,” that have remained cultural markers and synonyms for intimacy decades later. By the mid-'70s, Green’s personal life had led him toward religion, and in 1976 he established the Full Gospel Tabernacle in Memphis. He continued to record secular music until 1979, at which point he dedicated himself fully to gospel, as Reverend Al Green. Starting in the late ’80s, he sporadically returned to the soul world, and in the 2000s he made a series of albums for Blue Note, including a reunion with Mitchell and another album made with Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson. He returned to the road in 2019, for the first time in seven years, carrying on a tradition of allowing audiences to sing the words to tunes that have become common currency.