Call Me.
| Al Green
Call Me.
Call Me is the sixth album by soul singer Al Green. It is widely regarded as Green’s masterpiece, and has been called one of the best soul albums ever made. In 2003 the TV network VH1 named it the 70th greatest album in any genre. Call Me was a Top 10 Billboard Pop Album, and the third #1 Soul Album. In 2003, the album was ranked number 289 on Rolling Stone magazine’s list of the 500 greatest albums of all time. Praised for his emotive singing style, Green here incorporates country influences, covering both Willie Nelson and Hank Williams. This album contained three top 10 singles on the Billboard Hot 100: “You Ought to Be with Me,” “Here I Am (Come and Take Me)” and “Call Me (Come Back Home).” -Wikipedia
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Rolling Stone
Call Me is not an exceptional Al Green album, but it is as solid as a rock at its center. And that is what keeps me coming back for more.
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All Music
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.
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Only Solitaire
I'm not going crazy over this album (I'm not going crazy over Al Green in general, to begin with, but that's another story), but I enjoy it a lot.
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Super Seventies
Call Me is not an exceptional Al Green album, but it is as solid as a rock at its centerpiece. And that is what keeps me coming back for more.
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The RS 500
As good a record as Call Me is, it cannot breathe life into the dead. What it can do is remind us of how good real and true togetherness feels.
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OO Cities
This is simply great music, whether it be brilliantly seductive secular music such as the hauntingly ethereal title track or the sublime "You Ought To Be With Me" (featuring his most fabulous falsetto ever), greasy up-tempo pop such as on "Here I am," or the spiritual music found on “Jesus Is Waiting,” which impressively foreshadows Green's future direction singing gospel music and provides a fittingly fine ending to Green's greatest album.
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