Al Green reached his creative peak with the brilliant Call Me, the most inventive and assured album of his career. So silky and fluid as to sound almost effortless, Green's vocals revel in the lush strings and evocative horns of Willie Mitchell's superbly intimate production, barely rising above an angelic whisper for the gossamer "Have You Been Making Out O.K.." With barely perceptible changes in mood, Call Me covers remarkable ground, spanning from "Stand Up" -- a call to arms delivered with characteristic understatement -- to renditions of Hank Williams' "I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry" and Willie Nelson's "Funny How Time Slips Away," both of them exemplary fusions of country and soul. Equally compelling are the album's three Top Ten hits -- "You Ought to Be With Me," "Here I Am (Come and Take Me)," and the shimmering title cut. A classic.
(by Jason Ankeny, Allmusic)
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01 Call Me (Come Back Home) 02 Have You Been Making Out OK 03 Stand Up 04 I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry 05 Your Love Is Like The Morning Sun 06 Here I Am (Come And Take Me) 07 Funny How Time Slips Away 08 You Ought To Be With Me 09 Jesus Is Waiting
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AL GREEN "Call Me"
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Definitely a stone classic. And as good as the two LP's that came before this one are, I've always preferred the next two (I think this is correct in terms of the order):"Living For You" and "The Belle Album", the latter on which Al took over production duties from Willie Mitchell and crafted something far more personal (he even played some very distinctive, slightly off-kilter acoustic guitar on the album). But his 70's period is an astonishingly original, singular, and superbly-executed body of work. Thanks so much for posting these; I have vinyl copies only which I don't get to hear very often.
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