Al Green’s final album was the 2008 Questlove-produced album Lay It Down. Today, the Reverend has returned along with his first new music in a decade. It’s a canopy of “Before the Next Teardrop Falls,” and it’s being launched as the newest installment of Amazon Music’s “Produced By” series. Listen under.
Green’s cowl was produced by Memphis’ Matt Ross-Spang at Sam Phillips Recording Service. Ross-Spang’s sequence additionally included collaborations with Margo Price and John Prine. The producer stated in an announcement:
As a lifelong Memphian, I’ve at all times been a large fan of Al Green and his producer Willie Mitchell. Together they created a few of the most enduring soul music. Sonically talking, Willie and Al additionally actually invented a definite sound that separated them from Stax or Motown. Growing up in a such a wealthy musical heritage I grew to become captivated by these information and lengthy dreamed of working with Al Green. I’ve at all times cherished the Linda Martell version of “Before the Next Teardrop Falls” and stored it again pocket as an excellent cowl thought for him. It follows within the footsteps of Willie and Al reinterpreting nation songs like “For the Good Times” and “Funny How Time Slips Away.” I nonetheless can’t imagine we really received to do it!
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