Call Me [Original recording remastered]

Al Green | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (June 29, 2004)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Original recording remastered
• Label: The Right Stuff
• ASIN: B0002ABUQ6
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (24 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #41,029 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
  • #60 in Music > R&B > Soul > Memphis Soul

Track Listings

1. Call Me (Come Back Home)

2. Have You Been Making out O.K.

3. Stand Up

4. I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry

5. Your Love Is Like the Morning Sun

6. Here I Am (Come and Take Me)

7. Funny How Time Slips Away

8. You Ought to Be with Me

9. Jesus Is Waiting

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com essential recording

Call Me is the masterpiece from America's last great soul singer, a vulnerable, sensual, spiritual, and sexy album. Sent soaring by the bluesy accents of the Memphis Horns and held to Earth by the rock-solid, wide-open groove of drummer Al Jackson, the subject here is nothing less than Green's soul, a battle expressed beautifully in his otherworldly voice--crying and praying on the title track, despairing on his cover of "I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry," both bitter and resigned on his version of "Funny How Time Slips Away"--a voice as true as anything short of heaven. And on the closing "Jesus Is Waiting," we even get to hear that. --David Cantwell

Product Description

1973 album with another hit title track. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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Customer Reviews

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11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars His best LP?, August 10, 2004

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Kevin Killian (San Francisco, CA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Call Me (Audio CD)

Al Green's classic soul now newly remastered (no extra tracks) on his masterpiece "Call Me," sometimes known as "Come Back Home." His voice is sinuous, like a watersnake, and creeps up and through every obstacle like beautiful roses gilding a trellis. It breaks like the surf and it rolls on like a glacier, it can do anything he wants it to do. And he chalks up this gift to God.

Mournful, secular tunes like the heartbreaking "Ain't It Funny How Time Slips Away" meld here with the desperation that finally turns to bliss in "Jesus Is Waiting," so the contradictions of the gospel/R & B blend he pioneers all get resolved during the course of one LP. Some of the tracks are slightly extended past their natural stopping point, a 70s device pioneered by Isaac Hayes and others in the Stax/Volt stable, but if you like extended trills and groans and gasps ad infinitum, you'll scream when Al Green wants you to because he is the man!

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Godfather of Sweet Soul Music, July 30, 2001

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Allan Ostermann "allan" (Portland (the one on the left)) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Call Me (Audio CD)

If you want the definition of not just soul, but sweet soul music, look no further than Al Green. I can't even pick a favorite amongst the Hi Records recordings done with Willie Mitchell. If I was pressed to choose, I'd say Still In Love With You, Call Me, and Livin' For You. They actually sound like a continuation of one beautiful yet funky vibe.

This album could be my favorite, though. "Call Me" is a wonderful, kind of haunting song. But I think Your Love Is Like the Morning Sun personifies everything early 70s Al Green is about. It's like gospel, but without references to God; just love (unlike his later recordings, or the inspirational "Jesus is Waiting", on this album). It's simply mesmerizing. It gets inside you. And I love how the song ends with him creating verses based on previous titles ("I'm tired of being alone/I'm still in love with you/Let's stay together").

If you like Marvin Gaye, the Staples Singers, or perhaps Curtis Mayfield, buy this album. Sweet soul is not Lionel Richie or Ashford and Simpson or Peaches and Herb or Anita Baker or any of that crossover stuff. It's right here.

It's Hi Records. It's Willie Mitchell. It's Al Green. Thank you, sir, for years of listening pleasure.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars smooth as vaseline, rich and creamy, September 26, 2000

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guy peters (diepenbeek, belgium) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Call Me (Audio CD)

Aretha Franklin, Otis Redding, Marvin Gaye, Stevie Wonder, James Brown, they were all residing in my cd collection when I bought this Al Green-cd on a trip to New York, a few years ago. I expected lots from it, but not that it would stand as my favourite soul-album as for today. Otis is grittier, Aretha creates more db's, marvin made superior records, but for me, they cannot make an impact such as Al Green. Nine beautiful arranged songs, dealing with such quintessential topics such as love, religion and sexuality. Nine achingly delicious chants by the true master of soft soul. I still can't believe my own exaltation when I play "Jesus is waiting" or "Here I am", or "Call Me" again. It's slick, smooth, cheesy, corny, mucky, call it what you want, but in the meantime it's also one of the most passionately felt records I ever heard: Green LIVES his songs. You want your heart broken? Let Al do it, and you'll be thankful.