Al Green - Lay It Down
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Artist: Al GreenBrand: GREEN,AL
Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2008-05-27
Music Label: Blue Note Records
Soundtracks:
- Lay It Down (feat. Anthony Hamilton)
- Just For Me
- You've Got the Love I Need (feat. Anthony Hamilton)
- No One Like You
- What More Do You Want From Me
- Take Your Time (feat. Corinne Bailey Rae)
- Too Much
- Stay With Me (By the Sea) (feat. John Legend)
- All I Need
- I'm Wild About You
- Standing In the Rain
Music reviews of Lay It Down
Music Review: A Triumphant return to form!
Rating: 4 Stars
Forget all those $2 R&B stars, starlets and posers, like Trey Songz, The-Dream, Ashanti etc etc etc. THIS is one of the best contemporary soul discs there is out today, period. And I'd go as far as say it equals some of Al Green's past greats as well. There are just so many good and delicious songs in here: "Lay It Down", "Standing In The Rain", "You've Got The Love I Need", "Just For Me"...
It's also a true testament to how talented Ahmir "?uestlove" Thompson and his producing partner James Poyser are. Not forgetting the main man, of course, whose voice hasn't changed (or aged) one bit.
Just a few uneven songs keep me from giving this a full 5 stars.
Description of Lay It Down
Lay It Down with 11 tracks by Al Green. Friends laying it down with Al Green are Anthony Hamilton on the opening album title track and on 'You've Got the Love I Need'. Corinne Bailey Rae sings with Al on 'Take Your Time' and John Legend joins in on 'Stay With Me (By The Sea)'.Few performers have ever been so inimitable as the Reverend Al Green, so it's no surprise that the starry young collaborators who join him on the superb Lay It Down simply let the man sing in the way he knows best, and make their own contributions fit around his. Despite the presence of such luminaries as John Legend, Anthony Hamilton and Corinne Bailey Rae and the support of co-producers James Poyser and the Roots' Ahmir '?uestlove' Thompson, this is very much Green's show. But although the smart production attempts to update his classic sound, Lay It Down recognizes and preserves its enduring strengths. ?uestlove's brilliant drumming perfectly recaptures the languid snap the late Al Jackson Jr. brought to Green's legendary seventies hits, Larry Gold's string arrangements are measured and minimal while crack guitarist Chalmers 'Spanky' Alford, on one of his last sessions, demonstrates precisely how to balance rhythm and detail (The album is dedicated to his memory). Songs like the elegant title track, where Green out-emotes the decades-younger Hamilton, "Take Your Time", a lovely deep soul duet with Bailey Rae, and the quietly propulsive closer "Standing In The Rain" are naggingly timeless, though there really isn't a weak track on this excellent record. Lay It Down is a gift from one generation to the man that inspired them.--Steve Jelbert
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