Let's Stay Together.
| Al GreenLet's Stay Together.
Let’s Stay Together is a 1972 album by the soul singer Al Green, and is the follow-up to his moderate success Al Green Gets Next to You. It was recorded at Royal Recording Studio, 1320 S. Lauderdale, in Memphis and was a success, peaking at number eight on the pop albums chart and became the first of six albums to peak at number-one on the soul album chart (where it claimed the position for ten weeks). It is best known for the title track “Let’s Stay Together”, which became Green’s signature song and his only number-one pop hit single. The album was the third produced by Willie Mitchell and marked the beginning of Green’s classic period of critically acclaimed albums. Let’s Stay Together was reissued in 2003 by The Right Stuff. -Wikipedia
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Rolling Stone
Let’s Stay Together is, like its predecessor, an indispensable treat.
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Pitchfork
Fat Possum reissues three records from Al Green's legendary Hi catalogue, two of which now stand as stone classics of 1970s soul.
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All Music
The Arkansas native and his creative partner Willie Mitchell season these selections with lucid rhythm arrangements complemented by the faint strums of a guitar and brawn, unchiding horns.
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BBC Music
The zenith of Green’s collaborations with Hi Records and producer Willie Mitchell.
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Uncut
To dominate the world of soul music in the year 1972 took some doing.
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NPR
Al Green and Willie Mitchell turned soul music in a new direction with "Let's Stay Together."
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The Young Folks
It’s worth venturing a listen to and getting out of your comfort zone in your music taste.
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Augie Mirror
Let’s Stay Together is certainly an album of its time, but its aesthetics are now both what makes it charming and revelatory, and what pinpoints the universalizing human qualities underlying pop music of all points in history.
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Commercial Appeal
A fine album, but don’t make the mistake of starting with it.
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OO Cities
Green was proving himself to be an incredibly consistent album artist as well as a spectacular singles specialist.
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