Call Me [ORIGINAL RECORDING REMASTERED]

Al Green

Product Details

• Audio CD (June 29, 2004)
• Original Release Date: July 1973
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Original recording remastered
• Label: The Right Stuff
• ASIN: B0002ABUQ6
• Also Available in: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #38,228 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

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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

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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

By	Kevin Killian (San Francisco, CA United States) - See all my reviews (TOP 100 REVIEWER)    (REAL NAME)

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!

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Al Green's best work, March 5, 2006

By	W. Noshie (Beirut, Lebanon) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Al Green was the first great soul singer in the 70's. Plenty of releases until today; yet he failed to release a better album than this, with another one called "I am still in love with you". These 2 albums stand apart from all the rest of his work.
This album definitely sets the standard of what we call today Smooth Soul.
If you are new to Al Green's work, this album next to "I am still in love with you", are the ones. You will not regret it.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Outstanding !, April 27, 2005

By	Craig R. Stevens (Fairfax, VA USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

If there is anything in this genre out there better than this I would like to know what it is --- Simply amazing the emotion and feeling in Al's voice --Thank God he's back !