Al Green Biography

Al Green soul legend received the Rhythm and Blues Foundation's Lifetime Achievement Award in October 200l. He is responsible for such soul classics as Love and Happiness Let's Stay Together and Belle. His autobiography Take Me To The River and a hit collection by the same name were released in 2000. Publishers Weekly said Labeled by many as the last great soul man Green writes with modesty and with great spirit about his career.
His career began at age nine when he performed as part of his father's gospel group The Green Brothers. The quartet toured the South during the 50's and later moved to Grand Rapids Michigan where Al formed a new R&B group Al Green and the Creations later to become Al Green and the Soulmates. In 1968 the group scored an R&B Top 5 single with Back Up Train.
By 1969 Green in close collaoration with producer Willie Mitchell had begun a solo career releasing his debut album Green Is Blues. His 1970 follow-up album Al Green Gets Next To You went gold thanks to the hit single Tired of Being Alone. The 1973 album Call Me contained three Top 10 singles. Al was now an R&B superstar known for his soulful voice interesting musical arrangements and energetic live shows. In 1974 following a tragic accident Green found God and became a preacher at the Full Gospel Tabernacle Church in Memphis Tennessee where he still preaches to this day. Though he released three more albums for Hi Records the label which discovered him Al became weary of the music industry and founded his own studio American Music in 1977. His next two albums The Belle Album (1977) and Truth and Time (1978) were self-produced by Green.

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