Video: AL GREEN-Take Me To The River

In the last few years, some of my favorite music documentaries have been about artists with whom I was barely familiar, if at all. Though I like the New York Dolls, I had never known too much about Arthur Kane until I saw the fascinating film, New York Doll . And Canadian metal-gods Anvil weren't on my radar (or anyone's, really) until the amazing Anvil: Story of Anvil was released in 2008. Granted, I also loved The Devil and Daniel Johnston [...]

Willie Mitchell died yesterday . If you don't know who Willie Mitchell was, put on an Al Green record from 1971-1976. It was Willie Mitchell, as much as Al Green, who was responsible for the sound of those epochal, miraculous records, and for the sound of Memphis soul in the 1970's, post-Stax. As a trumpeter, bandleader, producer and eventually, a co-owner of Hi Records, Mitchell had few, if any peers. Like another great Memphis producer, Sam Phillips, Mitchell was a true original whose biggest demand of the artists he worked with were that they be [...]

This song appears on Explores Your Mind (1974) and was later covered by the Talking Heads on their second album. Watch the performance from Soul Train either here or at Youtube. Enjoy. <object width="425" height="350"><param name="movie" value=" http://www.youtube.com/v/2Tgm7 v284JI"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><e mbed src=" http://www.youtube.com/v/2Tgm7 v284JI" type="application/x-shockwave- flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="350"></embed></object>