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Al Green Have A Good Time (1976)
Have A Good Time\n2006 Hi Records/Capitol Records, Inc.\n\nOriginally Released December 1976\nCD Edition Released January 24, 2006\n\nAMG EXPERT REVIEW: The final offering from the magical collaboration between Al Green and producer Willie Mitchell, Have a Good Time found the dynamic duo in the midst of a creative crossroads. Green had just purchased a church and was looking to pour his energies into his congregation and his newly appointed title of Reverend. While the message and tones of religion aren't as obvious on Have a Good Time as they were on Full of Fire, they still do make appearances here and there. But it wasn't just a change in Green's life that made Have a Good Time so distinct from the earlier classics; it was also the changing shift in cultural tastes (thanks in no small part to the emergence of disco to the forefront of America's collective dance consciousness). With style shifts and members of a once solid backing band going their own way, the writing on the wall couldn't have been any clearer to both Green and Mitchell. With Have a Good Time they recapture moments of classic collaboration, the wonderful "Nothing Takes the Place of You" being the prime example of how good the two could be when they were in sync. -- Rob Theakston\n\nHalf.com Details \nProducer: Al Green, Willie Mitchell \n\nAlbum Notes\nPersonnel: Al Green (vocals); Michael Toles (guitar, sitar); Teenie Hodges (guitar); The Memphis Strings (strings); Andrew Love (alto saxophone); Lewis Collins, Bill Easley (tenor saxophone); James Mitchell (baritone saxophone); Wayne Jackson, Jack Hale, Jr. (trumpet); Jack Hale, Jackie Thomas (trombone); Archie Turner, Michael Allen, James Brown (piano); Charles Hodges (organ); Leroy Hodges (bass); Howard Grimes (drums, conga, bongos); Gene Chrisman (drums); Rhodes, Chalmers & Rhodes (background vocals).\n\nRecorded at Royal Recording Studio and Allied Recording Studio, Memphis, Tennessee. Includes liner notes by Alan Robinson.\n\nAll tracks have been digitally remastered.\n\nPersonnel: Al Green (vocals); Andrew Love (alto); Bill Easley, Lewis Collins (tenor); Michael Toles (guitar, sitar); Teenie Hodges (guitar); James Mitchell (baritone saxophone); Jack Hale (trumpet, trombone); Wayne Jackson (trumpet); Jackie Thompson (trombone); James Brown, Michael Allen, Archie Turner (piano); Charles Hodges (organ); Leroy Hodges (bass instrument); Howard Grimes (drums, congas, bongos); Gene Chrisman (drums).\n\nIndustry Reviews\n3 stars out of 5 - ...the last album [Green] made before his religious conversion....it contains the hit singles, 'Keep Me Crying' and 'I Tried to Tell Myself'...\nQ (02/01/2000)\n\n...the final album with [producer/co-writer, Willie] Mitchell....with whom he'd forged the sound that had made his name....Thoroughly pleasant...\nMojo (02/01/2000)\n\n\nROLLING STONE REVIEW\nIf his records are any indication, Al Green is a troubled, no, haunted man. Imagine the spiritual afflictions that prompted the theme of "Keep Me Cryin'," Green's latest single and a song from Have a Good Time: "Well I pleased all the people/But I couldn't please the crowd/So I got down on my knees and said/Father, wouldn't you clear my head/They keep me crying all the time." What makes the thing even stranger is the song's foundation: a sprightly rhythm topped by a sweet alto, and brassy trumpet fanfares replacing the usually dark and moody Memphis horns. Somehow the apparent contradictions between tone and theme work, and "Keep Me Crying" is one of the great Al Green singles of recent years.\n\nAfter the relatively adventurous Al Green Is Love, Green and producer Willie Mitchell scampered back to more conservative territory on last year's Full of Fire and again on Have a Good Time. Al's recent announcement that he intends to bring religion into his music has not brought any appreciable changes. To be sure, there are three gospel songs here, including the marvelous Sam Cooke/Soul Stirrers title cut, but too often Green and Mitchell fall back on ploys from previous albums, including yet another country-soul weeper, Toussaint McCall's "Nothing Takes the Place of You," which fails to reach the stark melancholy of the original. Near the end of side two Green crows, "I'm happy," but it is "Something," on side one, that truly sets the tone of this album: "Something is doggin' me.... Whatever it is I can't leave it alone." (RS 231 - Jan 27, 1977) -- JOE MCEWEN
This rock cd contains 9 tracks and runs 30min 9sec.
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