Livin for You

Al Green | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (July 12, 1994)
• Original Release Date: 2000
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Capitol
• ASIN: B000002TS0
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #287,212 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Underrated classic!, April 28, 2002

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Duchess - See all my reviews

This review is from: Livin' for You (Audio CD)

The weakest song on this CD, to me, is "Sweet Sixteen" (and it's not really a bad song). What I'm trying to say is there really isn't a sub par cut on this CD. This CD doesn't get the recognition, love, respect and glory of other Al Green albums released around the same era, but it's just as good as "Call Me", "I'm Still In Love With You" and "Let's Stay Together". Al even experiments with an alternative; almost avant-garde sounding song in "Beware" (Great!). Any Al Green fan should have this CD in their collection. It will not disappoint!

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Livin' With Green, March 14, 2001

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Thomas Magnum (NJ, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Livin for You (Audio CD)

Al Green has the amazing ability to mix religious sounds with the secular and the two sounds perfectly mesh on Livin' For You. "Free At Last", "Livin' For You", "Home Again", "So Good To Be Here" and "Beware" take on dual meanings. They could either be about the love of a woman or of God. "Let's Get Married" was the album's single and is a stirring song. Livin' For You is an underrated album in Al Green's catalog and is definitely worth a listen.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Silky Smooth Al, January 24, 2001

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whatevery (go brooklyn) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Livin for You (Audio CD)

Ah, sweet Al Green. He epitomizes all the best a real gut-instinct singer has to offer. None of the distracting flash, all of the soul that you really want out of classic R&B.

Listening to the bulk of this album, you get the feeling Al was singing to his lady, whom you infer was po'd that he was on the road so much, or chilling with his boys when he could have been spending time with her. My favorite song is "So Good To Be Here" in which, with great simplicity, Al proposes he and his woman cut through all the tired bs and arguments, survey the remains of their relationship and admit they need each other.

Al, Al, Al... You are the man!