AL GREEN: LAY IT DOWNFriday May 30,2008 Robert SpellmanSoulquarian’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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