Al Green & Willie together again... should i get my hopes up?

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listening now. sounds - hahaha - like an al green/willie mitchell album. anyone else heard it?

― gaz (gaz), Thursday, 20 November 2003 02:48 (twenty years ago) link

That's it--an Al Green/Willie Mitchell album. Not a great one, but a real good one, heats up as it goes along, then gets silly and fun at the end.

― Keith Harris (kharris1128), Thursday, 20 November 2003 02:57 (twenty years ago) link

The song I heard on the radio this morning sounded like a 70s Al Green cut and suprised me that it was new. The horn/string arrangement and production is very well done. I think it was the title cut of the album, going from the song lyrics.

― earlnash, Thursday, 20 November 2003 03:12 (twenty years ago) link

Oh shit--he covers "Over and Over?" Is this really true? Plus Gaz saying, "sounds like an Al Green/Willie Mitchell album" Is that really true as well?

I want details on this. It sounds, well, better than one would dare hope...

― M Specktor (M Specktor), Thursday, 20 November 2003 03:14 (twenty years ago) link

on one listen: yes,
it hits where it aims: the past,
the sweet sticky spot.

― Haikunym (Haikunym), Thursday, 20 November 2003 03:32 (twenty years ago) link

over & over isn't on my copy. its all green/mitchell originals. yeah matthew, its sweet.

― gaz (gaz), Thursday, 20 November 2003 03:41 (twenty years ago) link

Bought this today. I am a big fan, Haven't heard it yet, but the anticipation is incredible!

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Sunday, 23 November 2003 05:54 (twenty years ago) link

I liked Don't Give Up On Me! And the last Curtis Mayfield album!

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Sunday, 23 November 2003 06:00 (twenty years ago) link

was new world order the last curtis mayfield album? cuz it was great

― cinniblount (James Blount), Sunday, 23 November 2003 07:50 (twenty years ago) link

Yes it was. And yes it was.

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Sunday, 23 November 2003 16:27 (twenty years ago) link

one month passes...

Why doesn't anyone mention Rev. Green's children or his first wife, who can really sing and was a compliment to her former husband while they sang and recorded together

― Alva Green, Saturday, 17 January 2004 05:17 (twenty years ago) link

...sorry...

― East Bay Crackhaus (nordicskilla), Saturday, 17 January 2004 05:27 (twenty years ago) link

one month passes...

Picked this up today and damn if it is not like a time trip back to the 70's and I mean this in a good way! Great stuff.

― Jim Reckling (Jim Reckling), Friday, 5 March 2004 02:02 (twenty years ago) link

...and that's a good thing

― JaXoN (JasonD), Friday, 5 March 2004 02:55 (twenty years ago) link

played it once. total and complete disappointment. Not one memorable song nothing slow enough where's teenie?

― rumple, Friday, 5 March 2004 04:52 (twenty years ago) link

are there any Hodges on this at all?

― Broheems (diamond), Friday, 5 March 2004 05:10 (twenty years ago) link

one year passes...

I loved "My Problem is You." Just say I could relate . . .

― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Monday, 6 June 2005 05:59 (eighteen years ago) link

five years pass...

what's the deal w/the arthur baker/fine young cannibals 93 record "don't look back"? trad soul? electronic? house? good?

― jaxon, Monday, 7 February 2011 01:00 (thirteen years ago) link

Don't Look Back is terrific. On the whole it is very trad, but with just enough 90s touches to avoid sounding like a pure nostalgia trip. One song in particular, "Waiting on You," fascinates me because it's got a harsh, spiky sound and an almost angry Green vocal that's pretty fabulous and nearly unique in the Green canon. The album drags a bit in the second half, but it rebounds nicely at the end with the title track and the jaunty "Love in Motion." I think it was by far his best studio album since Truth N Time, and better than his trio of secular 'comeback' albums from the last decade.

― MumblestheRevelator, Monday, 7 February 2011 02:24 (thirteen years ago) link

k. discogs calls it 'house, soul, disco', so was a lil interested in a weird way

― jaxon, Monday, 7 February 2011 02:29 (thirteen years ago) link

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