Let’s Stay Together

Awesome. Love Al Green. 4/5

That jacket he has on the cover is sweet. Great soul. The album has a really good flow. Favorite songs were Let’s Stay Together, So You’re Leaving, What Is This Feeling, and How Can You Mend A Broken Heart.

3.27 per track.

Ik ga aan mijzelf twijfelen. Want nu hoor ik weer en kwalitatief sterke plaat met een ziel. Maar ik geniet er weer niet echt van. Ik stoor me bijvoorbeeld aan het gelal in What Is This Feeling. Maar is dat eigenlijk niet overdreven? Wellicht ben ik de laatste dagen gewoon niet zo in de stemming voor dit soort muziek.

Eine Kater wimmert zu leisen Klaviertönen über seine Probleme mit dem anderen Geschlecht. Es kommt kaum Power oder Begeisterung bei soviel „uuuuuuh“, „ wääää“ und „iiiiiij“ rüber. Manche nennen es Blues or Soul; ich fand es nur Zeitverschwendung.

Good grooves, very jazzy. The tone shifts from the first half of the album to the second, somewhat starkly?

Solid stuff, especially the title track. I enjoyed listening to this. A pretty strong 3.

Quite surprised that Al’s voice wasn’t the strongest. But this album was solid and a great listen.

I recognize Let's Stay Together. Enjoyable listen, 3*.

Empieza altísimo con Let's stay together. Me han gustado también I've never found a girl y un poco menos How can you mend a broken heart. Suena muy bien y es un gustazo escuchar un disco de 1972 como si estuviera grabado ayer.

The title track is transcendent. The rest of the album is good, but feels low-key and unexciting. I expect I would feel differently if I had been around when it was released.

Let's Stay Together is a tune. The rest of the album is a nice time overall.

2.4

Fully expected this to be a bit cheesy, but it was surprisingly smooth and enjoyable the whole way through. The title track towers over everything else here, but some of the lesser known tracks were quite good too. Incredible singing, but the production was a bit too raw perhaps, made it sound like a much older album than it is.

Before today, I'd never heard of Al Green before. He is a R&B/soul singer, similar to Curtis Mayfield, or Sam Cooke.

Al's life started out a bit crazy, as is the case with a lot of singers strangely. His family were strong Christians, and he got his start singing gospel music in church as a kid. He was kicked out of the house at a young age because he was caught listening to Elvis. He was, perhaps, drawn to popular music because it was taboo to his religious family.

Al went on to begin his music career. This album is his fourth studio recording. His style of almost whispering into the mic, and moving the microphone close then far away from his mouth to almost manually layer his vocals was amazing. His music is super catchy! The drummer on this album was from Booker T and the M.G.'s. (Al Jackson Jr.).

A few years after this album was released, Al suffered a tragedy in the form of his wife throwing hot grits on him while he was soaking in the tub, then shooting and killing herself before he could intervene. That was one of the events that transpired, which drove Al back to religion. He is now a preacher of a church in Memphis.

This was a teriffic album. It would be perfect mood music for a weekend morning, or a dinner party.

Favourite songs: It Ain't No Fun To Me, What is This Feeling, Let's Stay Together, So You're Leaving, La-La For You, Old Time Lovin'

Least favourite songs: I've Never Found A Girl

4/5

"Let's Stay Together" is obviously a classic, the rest of this is pretty great, and I like the way it didn't outstay its welcome.

Smooth as the day is long.

I love his voice and the way he does his own backing vocals. It's like he's dancing with himself.

Classic and classy, and far more variety of tone and texture than I would have expected.

Al Green’s pure vision of love always inspires me. He’s just so damn wholesome, never running around playing, but seeking the natural end of love: to give himself completely to one woman for life. I love the touches of his sweet, sexy falsetto. Also this album has one of the best covers of any song ever: Green’s rendition of the Gibb brothers’ “How Can You Mend a Broken Heart?” I believe him when he sings.