Soul, R&B and gospel singer Al Green is on his first tour in seven years, including a stop at the Greek Theatre in L.A. on May 9.
Soul, R&B and gospel singer and Baptist preacher Al Green is embarking on his first tour in seven years, concluding May 9 at the Greek Theatre in Los Angeles. Since 1976, music fans from around the world have made pilgrimages to visit the humble Full Gospel Tabernacle church on the outskirts of Memphis, Tenn. But it turns out you don’t have to show up on his home turf to experience the Rev. Al Green’s slow-build shift into galvanic preacher mode.
“Matthew [Johnson, co-founder] of Fat Possum keeps up with the latest this, the latest that,” Green explained, developing a rhythmic cadence akin to what he spins from the pulpit most Sundays when he delivers his sermons. The material on the box set, which also includes a 58-page booklet featuring three new essays on his music and life, provides an overview of his richly rewarding association with Memphis’ Hi Records label, and his close association with producer and songwriter Willie Mitchell, who died in 2010 and with whom Green crafted virtually all those signature recordings.
A big part of that shift stemmed from the 1974 suicide of his then-girlfriend, Mary Woodson White, after severely scalding him by tossing a pot of hot grits on him at his home. He took the incident as a wake-up call after establishing himself as one of music’s leading sex symbols in the early ’70s. “The last time I was in the studio I recorded ‘Before the Next Teardrop Falls,’ ” referring to the song Tex-Mex singer and songwriter Freddy Fender took to No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1975. Green’s version, produced by Memphis veteran Matt Ross-Spang, was released in September for the Amazon Original series of music streaming exclusives.
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