Al Green Explores Your Mind
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Al Green Explores Your Mind
Al Green Explores Your Mind is the eighth album by soul singer Al Green. Unlike previous Al Green albums, this album featured only one major hit, the U.S. #7 hit “Sha-La-La (Make Me Happy)”, but did contain the original version of “Take Me to the River”, a song which went to #26 on the Billboard chart when covered by Talking Heads in 1978. In 2004, the song “Take Me to the River” was ranked number 117 on Rolling Stone magazine’s list of the 500 greatest songs of all time. -Wikipedia
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Rolling Stone
He sings from the side of his mouth, seemingly straight from the heart — his every sigh, mutter, trill and moan worth 100 twenty-dollar words — yet it seems like he’s just being Al.
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All Music
The biggest draw here is Green's phrasing and intimate vocals, making the record an extremely strong effort.
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Commercial Appeal
This inaugurates the “lost years” period, after Green’s commercial decline but before his abandonment of secular music. But here you’ll find “Take Me to the River,” not included on Greatest Hits even as its become one of Green’s most enduring recordings.
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OO Cities
Green in cruise control mode is still better than 90% of anything else out there.
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