Detailed item info | Track listing | DISC 1:
1. Back up Train
2. Hot Wire
3. Stop and Check Myself
4. I Want to Hold Your Hand
5. Tomorrow's Dream
6. I'm a Ram
7. I Can't Get Next to You
8. Light My Fire
9. Intro to Tired of Being Alone
10. Tired of Being Alone
11. Driving Wheel
12. Listen - (take 2)
13. True Love
14. Guilty
15. We've Only Just Begun / Let's Stay Together
DISC 2:
1. Intro to Let's Stay Together
2. Let's Stay Together
3. So You're Leaving
4. Judy
5. La-la For You
6. How Can You Mend a Broken Heart
7. I'm Still in Love With You
8. I'm Glad You're Mine
9. Look What You Done For Me
10. Love and Happiness
11. Simply Beautiful
12. Technique of Writing My Songs..., The - (interview)
DISC 3:
1. Call Me (Come Back Home)
2. You Ought to Be With Me
3. Have You Been Making Out O.K.
4. Here I Am (Come and Take Me)
5. I Took What I Learned From Rock and Roll... - (interview)
6. Jesus Is Waiting
7. Free at Last
8. Livin' For You
9. Mimi
10. I Think It's For the Feeling
11. Sha-la-la (Make Me Happy)
12. Take Me to the River
13. L-O-V-E (Love)
14. Rhymes
15. Love Sermon, The
16. God Blessed Our Love
17. That's My Dog Roma... / How I Sing The Way I Sing... - (interview)
DISC 4:
1. I Don't Have to Go to Your Church... - (interview)
2. I'd Fly Away
3. Full of Fire
4. Together Again
5. Love Ritual - (1988 Remix)
6. Always
7. Have a Good Time
8. Love and Happiness
9. Too Close
10. We Try to Furnish... - (interview)
11. But One Thing I Like About Jesus... - (interview)
12. Belle
13. Wait Here
14. Chariots of Fire
15. I Feel Good
16. Dreams / All `N' All
17. I Know One Thing I Had to Do... - (interview)
| | Details | | Distributor: | EMI Music Distribution | | Recording type: | Mixed | | Recording mode: | Stereo | | SPAR Code: | n/a |
| | Album notes | Personnel includes: Al Green (vocals, guitar); Bernard Staton (guitar, keyboards); James Bass (guitar, bass); Mabon "Teenie" Hodges, (guitar); James Mitchell, Andrew Love, Ed Logan (saxophone); Wayne Jackson (trumpet); Daryl Neely, Ron Echols, Buddy Jarrett, Fred Jordan (horns, keyboards); Jack Hale (trombone); Charles Hodges, Johnny Brown, Ron Buckholtz, Ron Echols, Leon Thomas, Archie Turner, Michael Allen (keyboards); Lynda Harper (organ); Leroy "Flick" Hodges, William McBrown, Reuben Fairfax, Jr. (bass); Al Jackson, Aaron Purdue, Tim Daney (drums); Howard Grimes, Ardis Hardin (drums, percussion); Eddie Polk (conga); Sandra Rhodes, Margaret Foxworth, Linda Jones, Quenten Golden (background vocals); The Memphis Strings.
Producers include: Palmer James, Curtis Rodgers, Willie Mitchell, Robert Mugge, Al Green.
Compilation producer: Robert Gordon.
Principally recorded at Royal Recording Studios, Memphis, Tennessee. Includes a 64-page booklet with liner notes by Robert Gordon and Robert Christgau.
ANTHOLOGY was nominated for a 1998 Grammy Award for Best Album Notes.
Documenting the best years of the greatest living rhythm and blues singer, Al Green's ANTHOLOGY is inescapably essential. If you're already a Green fan, you'll want to hear the previously-unreleased live tracks, alternate takes and interview excerpts. If you're one of the uninitiated, this is the perfect introduction. It will cost you, but an artist of Green's magnitude NEEDS four discs to even begin to tell the whole story of his soulful gift.
ANTHOLOGY focuses almost exclusively on Green's recordings for the Hi label (it also contains some pre-Hi tracks and other rarities). These classic sessions were produced by Willie Mitchell, and featured the gloriously groovy accompaniment of the Hodges brothers, drummers extraordinaire Al Jackson and Howard Grimes, and the rest of Mitchell's Memphis stable of funkmasters. As a fundamentally necessary box set of American pop music, ANTHOLOGY is up there with Elvis' THE KING OF ROCK 'N' ROLL and only a few others. You need this.
| | Editorial reviews | ...an aural documentary of Green's career as a soul singer....More illuminating than comprehensive, ANTHOLOGY is a loving, detailed portrait of an incomparable voice.
Vibe (06/01/1997)
...a much more three-dimensional portrait of a superstar than you usually get from a boxed set. - Rating: A
Entertainment Weekly (02/14/1997)
...It's interesting and amusing to hear him manipulate the now-famous voice through all kinds of stylistic contortions....there's almost no way to go wrong with an Al Green anthology. Arguably the finest and most enduring male singer in R&B...
Musician (06/01/1997)
5 Stars (out of 5) - ...the four discs of this expertly programmed box set deliver the obvious hits. But that's only the beginning....ANTHOLOGY works as an audio biography and actually makes sense of one of the most mercurial performers in pop history...
Rolling Stone (01/23/1997)
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