Al Green - Lay It Down
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Artist: Al GreenEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2008-05-27
Music Label: Blue Note Records
Soundtracks:
- Lay It Down (feat. Anthony Hamilton)
- Just For Me
- You've Got the Love I Need (feat. Anthony Hamilton)
- No One Like You
- What More Do You Want From Me
- Take Your Time (feat. Corinne Bailey Rae)
- Too Much
- Stay With Me (By the Sea) (feat. John Legend)
- All I Need
- I'm Wild About You
- Standing In the Rain
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Free Music Review: Lay It Down, Let It Go, Fall In Love...With Al Green
Hit: 5 Stars
It's strange to hear people talk about Al's "come Back" with this compilation.
In my opinion, he never left the stage. This group of recordings is vintage
Al: smooth, seamless, timeless. He's the Master of Soul, and if you love the
Reverand's previous works, you'll not regret adding this one to your collection.
I simply can't take this disc out of my player. I'm purchasing it for two friends
who I know will be thrilled with it. Bravo Al! Keep Standing in the Rain!
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Lay It Down with 11 tracks by Al Green. Friends laying it down with Al Green are Anthony Hamilton on the opening album title track and on 'You've Got the Love I Need'. Corinne Bailey Rae sings with Al on 'Take Your Time' and John Legend joins in on 'Stay With Me (By The Sea)'.Few performers have ever been so inimitable as the Reverend Al Green, so it's no surprise that the starry young collaborators who join him on the superb Lay It Down simply let the man sing in the way he knows best, and make their own contributions fit around his. Despite the presence of such luminaries as John Legend, Anthony Hamilton and Corinne Bailey Rae and the support of co-producers James Poyser and the Roots' Ahmir '?uestlove' Thompson, this is very much Green's show. But although the smart production attempts to update his classic sound, Lay It Down recognizes and preserves its enduring strengths. ?uestlove's brilliant drumming perfectly recaptures the languid snap the late Al Jackson Jr. brought to Green's legendary seventies hits, Larry Gold's string arrangements are measured and minimal while crack guitarist Chalmers 'Spanky' Alford, on one of his last sessions, demonstrates precisely how to balance rhythm and detail (The album is dedicated to his memory). Songs like the elegant title track, where Green out-emotes the decades-younger Hamilton, "Take Your Time", a lovely deep soul duet with Bailey Rae, and the quietly propulsive closer "Standing In The Rain" are naggingly timeless, though there really isn't a weak track on this excellent record. Lay It Down is a gift from one generation to the man that inspired them.--Steve Jelbert
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