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Immortal Soul of Al Green by: Al Green List Price: $69.98 CD-Charts Price: $38.97 You Save: $31.01 (44%)Prices subject to change. |
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Binding: Audio CD EAN: 0724359055121 Format: Box set, Original recording remastered Label: The Right Stuff Manufacturer: The Right Stuff Number Of Discs: 4 Publisher: The Right Stuff Release Date: September 07, 2004 Studio: The Right Stuff Sales Rank: 31181 MPN: 90551 Disc 1:
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Editorial Review: Amazon.com: The careers of most soul greats are marked by a struggle to reconcile opposite impulses--sanctified piety and earthly lust, down-home grit and urbane polish, bluesy pain and carefree jubilation. Throughout the '70s Al Green floated above such contradictions by blithely imagining that they didn't exist. The ecstatic good will with which Green's voice overflowed couldn't be neatly categorized; it contained the sacred, the erotic, and the just plain old friendly. Similarly smooth and rough vocal tones were, for him, equally valuable devices with which to seduce the listener, and his fluid technique was matched by Hi Records producer Willie Mitchell. Sheathing raw soul within velveteen strings, the Hi sound didn't so much combine elements of Stax gutbucket and Philly International suavity as meld the styles whole. Green's '70s output is near-flawless, which makes compiling him a challenge--why not just go out and buy a handful of his classic albums? Rather than rise to that challenge, the 1997 four-disc set Anthology acknowledged defeat with a hodgepodge of hits, misses, live tracks, and outtakes. All business, The Immortal Soul of Al Green takes a different tack, presenting a genuine overview: seventy-five tracks, including practically every charting hit, in rough chronology. You can hear the early Green, a rough-and-ready southern soul man, grow comfortable within the smoother Hi formula. And you can hear the later Green, tiring of that formula, coast into the late '70s (brilliantly, but coasting regardless) until he steps away from Mitchell to record The Belle Album, a stripped-down masterpiece based around his own acoustic guitar. The set is unified by Green's unwavering sensibility, which, through it all, radiates both comforting warmth and tingling excitement--yet another pair of varied traits Green refused to acknowledge as opposites. --Keith Harris Customer Reviews
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 Rating:  - Worth listening as frequently as your favorite bookI cannot well afford to get all of Al Green's Hi albums, however, this compilation helps me to grasp Hi sound's essence "Groove and be simple", as well as Al's seductive voice. It has a good design like your favorite book which you read so again and again that its jacket has worn out, and you can enjoy it like such. When you buy a new one, you should not misunderstand it as a used one. But one thing I dare to complain about the binding is its rubber holders which keep 4 CDs fastening tightly. For fear I should not break them down, I put CDs on the holders not so deeply. Rating:  - WHERE`S "FOR THE GOOD TIMES"??The omission of "For The Good Times" fosters my belief that most people who ultimately decide the song titles on an R&B compilation or major Soul artist box set are unqualified to do so. A weaker cover version of a "Rock" hit is more important in their eyes which tells me those individuals are Rock music fans as opposed to Soul. How about one of these so-called big white bread companies FOR ONCE hiring the right person to pick which tracks should be on an R&B or major Soul artist compilation. As a LONG TIME veteran of R&B Radio for many years, I know what I`m talking about."For The Good Times" was my MOST requested Al Green song in all the years on the air in several R&B radio outlets throughout the Southeast. Rating: - Scratched disksI bought and had to return this box twice. In both, all the CDs were scratched. A factory defect? Quality control slippage? Or, as I'm beginning to suspect, some genius at the record company had pushed to the extreme the idea of giving the box a feel of something old and well-worn? This is the case of the box package, with its false-old presentation of a shelf-worn book. Ok, why not. But to actually factory-scratch the disks to make them "used" - that's beyond me! A pity then, seeing that it's a great and very comprehensive collection, not that far from a "Complete Al Green on Hi". Rating: - Missing TracksAlthough this set is wonderful, it's still missing some essential tracks..."Feels Like Summer" comes to mind. Buy the original LPs. Rating: - Box sets or Al Green collections just don't get any betterAl Green really deserved a box set like this for a long time. He's had an unprecedented amount of hits and quality songs, even before he ventured into his Gammy winning gospel days. I could never find a greatest hits collection that had everything I wanted, so I ended up having to buy several and still fell short. I cannot think of another Box set that I've seen that is as complete as this one. My only complaint is that they try to fit his songs into "Sex", "Love", "Salvation" & "Soul". You couldn't really break all of his songs down like this, so they end up making odd pairings like "God Is Standing By" on the Sex disc. They should have done a better job at matching the themed discs or just not worried about naming them ... Read More: |
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