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Al Green Celebrates 40 Years Of Unparalleled Soul Greatness With Career-Spanning Hits Collection
Capitol/EMI To Release Al Green: The Definitive Greatest Hits On CD and Digitally; Deluxe CD/DVD Adds Music Video and TV Performances

Six Classic Al Green Tracks to Make Ringtone Debut

“Unquestionably the greatest soul singer to come to prominence in the ‘70s…”
- Rolling Stone Hollywood, California - January 09, 2007 – In 2007, Al Green celebrates the 40th anniversary of his soul-transcendent music career. To commemorate the occasion, Al Green: The Definitive Greatest Hits, a new career-spanning collection of his most beloved and enduring hits, will be released January 16 by Capitol/EMI Music Catalog Marketing in CD and deluxe CD/DVD packages and digitally. The collection’s 21 tracks, all 24-bit digitally re-mastered, include six classic Hi Records-era Number One hits, “Let’s Stay Together,” “I’m Still In Love With You,” “L-O-V-E,” “Livin’ For You,” “You Ought To Be With Me,” “Full Of Fire,” and other career-defining tracks Green recorded for Hi and Blue Note. The CD package features new liner notes by Colin Escott and archive photos, and the deluxe CD/DVD adds six film and video clips, including TV performances from 1971, 1978 and 2004. In addition, six classic Al Green tracks will make their ringtune debuts on January 16.

During the course of his career, the Rock and Roll Hall Of Famer, nine-time Grammy winner and ordained minister Al Green has racked up seven number one albums and 16 Top 10 singles in the U.S. alone. Green’s recordings have earned a bevy of gold and platinum sales awards around the world, including, in the U.S., eight gold singles, five gold albums, one platinum album, and one triple platinum album.

It has been 40 years since “Al Greene and the Soulmates,” then based in Grand Rapids, Michigan, released their first album, Back Up Train, on their own Hot Line label. The album became a hit, and the hit begat a tour. Somewhere in Texas, the Soulmates quit, leaving Greene to work a show date in Midland with bandleader Willie Mitchell, a star artist and producer on Memphis’ Hi Records label, a chance meeting that evolved into a collaboration that would shape both of their careers.

After signing with Hi Records himself in 1968, Al Green (with Greene’s last “e” dropped) became a soul music sensation within 18 months and an international superstar within seven years. Backed by The Hi Rhythm Section (the Hi Records house band) and produced by Mitchell, Green merged his inimitable vocals of sultry depths and soaring falsetto heights with the Section’s funk-tinged arrangements, originating a feverish and yearning brand of soul music. By 1972, Al Green was preeminent in R&B and one of pop music’s biggest luminaries. Green’s recordings are transcendently brilliant, at once definitive of their time and relevant for the ages. His illustrious career has been chronicled in more than 30 albums and an autobiography, Take Me to the River.

Still actively recording and performing, Green’s concert tours take him to cities around the world every year for roof-raising shows.

Date	Venue	Location	Time	Phone Number
04/29/07	Plymouth Jazz Festival	Tabago, West Indies	TBA	tobagojazzfest.com
06/28/07	Royal Albert Hall	London, UK	N/A	+44 20 7589 8212
06/29/07	Evening News Arena	Manchester, UK	N/A	0871 226 5000
07/01/07	Malahide Castle	Dublin, IRE	N/A	N/A
07/02/07	Playhouse Theatre	Edinburgh, SCOTLAND	N/A	+44 131 524 3333
07/04/07	National Indoor Arena	Birmingham, UK	N/A	+44 870 909 4144
07/06/07	Hammersmith Apollo	London, UK	N/A	+44 20 8563 3800
07/09/07	Grand Rex Theater	Paris, France	N/A	31-892-68-0596
07/11/07	VIAJAZZ	Madrid, Spain	N/A	N/A
07/13/07	North Sea Jazz	Rotterdam, Holland	N/A	N/A
07/21/07	Memphis Botanic Gardens	Memphis, TN	N/A	(901) 685-1566

NOTE:
Dates and venues are subject to change. Always check
with venue before traveling to any listed performance.

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