Mmmmmm. Cookies. My 4-year-old and I baked those Rudolph cookies last weekend. There was sugar and M&Ms everywhere, and don't even get me started on how hard it was to bite those pretzels into antler shapes. Unsanitary, but it gets the job done the only way I could figure out how. The end result was fantastic, and we've been delivering (what I now realize are little saliva-contaminated) batches to our good friends all week long. While we baked, we listened to my new Christmas mix for 2007 that I've been tweaking and perfecting for weeks. I think I'm [...]
curb your enthusiasm's hilarious season finale aired over a month ago, but another great hbo show, extras , is closing up shop for good this weekend with an extended christmas special...even if you've never watched a single episode, tune in sunday, because it looks amazing ...anyways, our fifth holiday compilation is a bit of a mixed bag, with great tracks from dr. john, smokey robinson, & joni mitchell, as well as my favorite song from my morning jacket's fantastic xmas fiasco style ep...i do feel a little self conscious about including mariah carey [...]
Dear Diary (ha ha! I'm not kidding - prepare yourselves for this!), I don't have a lot to blog about today. I slept for a ridiculously long time last night, and am quite tired as a result. I think I slept from the moment I finished yesterday's entry until 10am this morning, except for an hour or two when I watched "Lost" (though I fell asleep in the middle of the second episode). Today I read a few interesting articles about a client of my father's while eating my breakfast. Apparently he's an unofficial ambassador between America and [...]
Al Green - I Can't Get Next to You Yes. Al Green was one hot motherfucker in the 70s. Hmm. . . . Not much else to say here. I just wanted to post a really great classic song that I'm really feeling today. That note that he hits at the end is crazy. buy: The Definitive Greatest Hits
More from the taxpayer-funded Mayer Unit . This time, it's the five best songs from 1974: 1. MP3: Al Green - "Take Me To The River" 2. MP3: Bob Dylan - "Dirge" 3. Stevie Wright - "Evie, Part One" 4. MP3: David Essex - "Rock On" 5. MP3: Average White Band - "Person To Person" Honourable mention from the Unit: MP3: Tom Waits - "New Coat Of Paint"
Hi. It's been a while. That's because I'm up to my nuts in grad school. But I'm back for now...if only by way of procastination. Heard the new Charlie Hunter yet? Mistico is a wad of acidic, rocky jazz. Chuck's been getting a little edgier with each new release, and I like it. I also like how quickly he manages to shit out fresh material. I think you should buy this. Charlie Hunter Trio - Speakers Built In [...]
Most people are either back to work or school and vacation time is not on the horizon. While you're busy taking care of business, remember what Twin Peaks' Agent Cooper said - "Every day, once a day, give yourself a present. Don't plan it. Don't wait for it. Just let it happen. It could be a new shirt at the men's store, a catnap in your office chair, or two cups of good, hot black coffee." Though you might be tied up with work or study, today's gift is make sure to enjoy yourself, even if it's just for a [...]
LOVE AND HAPPINESS Al Green I'm Still In Love With You Hi : 1972 [Buy It] Readers, we have sad news for you today. Megan Matthews died this week, of complications following a pulmonary embolism. She was thirty-six years old - infuriatingly brilliant, passionate, and beautiful - and with a nine-year-old daughter. "I have a very sad story, the kind that makes people feel sorry for you," Megan wrote in April, to a young woman who'd asked her advice about writing, [...]
Bach, Goldberg Variations from The Shape Of Song Marcia Griffiths - Here I Am (Come And Take Me) (R&B) - a cover of Al Green's classic. from the great 'soul sides, volume 2 covers' album from the always original Soul Sides Al Green - Loving You (R&B) - it's the understated drumming that helps the sense of longing and urgency in this song. Nina Simone - My Man's Gone Now (Blues) - you have to be dead [...]
Al Green - " How Can You Mend a Broken Heart? " from Let's Stay Together (1972) So sexy, but so sad. And who knew this tune was written by the Brothers Gibb? Buy Rev. Green here Posted by Jordy
What can you say about Al Green? Well, one can think of a few things, the first being this: Al Green is a living legend. He was a giant in the heyday of soul rhythm and blues. His name hangs with the big boys, like James Brown, Marvin Gaye, and Sly Stone. The albums Green released during the early 1970's under the guidance of Hi Records guru Willie Mitchell are quite simply among the greatest R&B records ever recorded. The majority of people are merely familiar with Al's super hits, such as "Let's Stay Together," and "I'm Still In Love [...]
1. Ann Peebles - Trouble, Heartaches & Sadness (Straight From the Heart / Hi / 1972) 2. The Spinners - Could It Be I'm Falling In Love (Spinners / Rhino / 1972) 3. Esther Phillips - Home Is Where The Hatred Is (From a Whisper to a Scream / Columbia / 1972) 4. Al Green - I'm Still in Love With You (I'm Still in Love With [...]
SGT. PEPPER'S LONELY HEARTS CLUB BAND Jimi Hendrix LADY MADONNA Fats Waller Fats is Back Reprise : 1968 [Buy It] OB-LA-DI-OB-LA-DA/WISE MAN (MEDLEY) Desmond Dekker & The Aces Beverly's : 1969 Available on: You Can Get It If You Really Want Trojan : 2005 [Buy It] AND I LOVE HIM Video Esther Phillips And I Love Him [...]
Al Green - "Jesus is Waiting" The first eight songs on Al Green's Call Me are about women. The ninth and last is about Jesus. This divergence in subject matter is not matched by a divergence in sound; the song is as salacious as Stephen Dedalus. Tension between godliness and horniness is a favourite theme among soul singers - Sam Cooke sang it, as did Marvin Gaye, just as James Joyce wrote it, or even St. Augustine. St. A was a hedonistic young man with a predilection for petty theft and pretty ladies, but he found god in his twenties [...]
Probably why I haven't been posting - hot, sleepy, lazy Al Green singing Take Me to the River mp3 Technorati Tags:
The album First Landing by the Detroit soul group The Dynamics is one of the great lost R&B records from the Sixties (1969, in fact) and was recently reissued on CD on Hacktone Records . It's an essential album to add to your collection as far as deep soul records go, a great discovery for fans of soul music and those who want to start their collections off solid like. The Dynamics included Zeke [...]
LOVE AND HAPPINESS Al Green I'm Still In Love With You Hi : 1972 [Buy It] LOVE AND HAPPINESS Al Brown Available on: Soulful Reggae Trojan : 2002 [Buy It] WEST BOUND TRAIN Dennis Brown Available on: This is Reggae Music: The Golden Age 1960-1975 Trojan : 2004 [Buy It] MY SOUL HAS GOT TO MOVE Dixie Wonders [...]
Originally written by Al Green and Hi Records house guitarist Mabon Hodges in 1973. The track first appeared on Al Green Explores Your Mind (The Right Stuff). However, my personal favorite version of "Take Me to the River" was done in 1978 by the Talking Heads. "Take Me to the River" also became a top 40 hit for Talking Heads. Al Green - Take Me to the River Talking Heads - Take Me to the
Free stuff is just the greatest. Since Ace and I started this site the best part of my day has become opening my mail box and finding new packages waiting there for me. One that came recently was the fantastic Soul Sides Vol. 2: The Covers compilation. The album is a bunch of soul, reggae and R&B artists performing random covers. While this could have turned out fairly lame, the songs are great and so are the artists performing them. Hands down the best moment on the disc comes during Al Green's cover of [...]
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