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AL GREEN: LAY IT DOWN

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Friday May 30,2008

By Robert Spellman

Soulquarian’s James Poyser and Ahmir Thompson have tried to spruce up Green’s old Memphis sound on a new batch of songs.

But the duo pussyfoot around their hero, preserving not only Al’s pleasure-pain falsetto but overall tone of the Willie Mitchell years.

Nobody’s complaining, but when a gorgeously heavy-hearted Corrine Bailey step in, things get interesting.

(Blue Note)

OUR VERDICT ***
 
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