Name: Greatest Hits
Brand: Al Green

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FPH11351

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Limited edition

Release date

2013-11-11

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The Orchard

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2013-10-29

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Al Green

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Funk / Soul

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Fat Possum

Soul/gospel singer and songwriter, Al Green, was born on 13 April 1946 in Forrest City, Arkansas, USA. He started his career as Al Greene but has used the name Al Green since the late 1960s. In addition to his music career, he has been a pastor at Memphis' Full Gospel Tabernacle since 1976. Al Green was inducted into the Rock And Roll Hall of Fame in 1995 as a performer and into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2004.

Fat Possum Records is a label that was established in 1991 with the sole purpose of recording R.L. Burnside. Over time, it evolved into a mission to discover and record the last remaining original bluesmen before they passed away. Despite facing various challenges such as difficult personalities, limited songs, and a raw sound that didn't fit the mainstream blues market, these artists possessed immense talent and truly lived the blues.

In recent years, Fat Possum has expanded its catalog to include newer indie blues rock bands alongside their traditional offerings.

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Al Green Greatest Hits, features the classics Let's Stay Together, How Can You Mend A Broken Heart, Tired Of Being Alone and Love and Happiness amongst many other gems from his catalogue.

For years, Willie Mitchell told anyone who would listen that the one thing Hi Records needed was a young, charismatic male singer with the potential for stardom. In 1969, fate would intervene in the form of a destitute 22-year-old named Albert Greene.

Green - as he would later change the spelling - relocated to Michigan as a child and began singing gospel with his brothers and launched his career with an album for the tiny Hot Line Label in 1967, called Back Up Train. His ﬁrst single had been a small breakout, but Green had fallen on hard times since then. Stranded in Texas, he asked if he could sit in and earn a few dollars performing with Mitchell that night. "He started singing and I heard that voice and I said, "'Ah-ha! Look what I found here."

It would take a little more than the 18 months for Green to evolve into stardom. The ﬁrst two albums they recorded were minor masterpieces in their own way, offering inventive R&amp;B interpretations of songs by the Beatles and Doors, among others. The latter LP produced a top 10 hit in the Green-penned Tired of Being Alone and a gritty reworking of the Temptations' Can't Get Next To You.

Released at the end of 1971, Let's Stay Together shot up the charts, becoming a No. 1 hit and the biggest pop song of the following year. The accompanying album would also land atop the R&amp;B charts. The next ﬁve years would yield arguably the greatest run in the annals of R&amp;B. With Mitchell producing and helping co-write many of Green's hits (Call Me [Come Back Home], and I'm Still In Love With You), and guitarist Teenie Hodges collaborating on several others (Love and Happiness, Here I Am (Come and Take Me]), Hi would not only come to dominate, but also redeﬁne, soul music in the early '70s.

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