![]() King was assassinated in Memphis in 1968, so these records don’t have as much hopeful buoyancy as most 1960s soul. Green created this music in a narrow window of time, between “Tired of Being Alone” in 1971 and “Full of Fire” in 1975. Each was certified Gold, outperformed among Green’s singles only by the epic, ubiquitous “Let’s Stay Together”, released just a few months earlier, in late 1971. The album’s two primary singles, “I’m Still in Love with You” and “Look What You Done for Me”, both reached top five pop (number three and number four, respectively) and R&B (number one and number two, respectively). Of course, it also hit number one on the R&B chart and stayed there for five weeks. Before the music market became so segregated, it wasn’t a shock that a record like this one would reach number four pop, the highest chart position of any of Green’s classic albums (it’s the only one of them to be certified Platinum). That’s the Al Green who released I’m Still in Love with You 50 years ago, right in the middle of his trifecta of soul perfection (after Let’s Stay Together and before Call Me).īack in 1972, the appeal of I’m Still in Love with You was enormous, and its reach was vast. But I won’t, because none of that is as interesting as Al Green on Hi Records in his prime, when he was the greatest soul singer alive - maybe even the best ever. I could write about his upbringing and the early, less successful stages of his career, his long turn to the church after being assaulted by his girlfriend, or his return to (secular) form in 2003 and the years that followed.
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