Name: Have A Good Time
Brand: Al Green

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Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

fph11432

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Download code: No

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Rough Trade Exclusive: No

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Format detail

Format Music GB

Limited edition

Release date

2014-03-24

Signed copies

Signed copies: No

Supplier GB

The Orchard

Tax rate GB

Standard:20

UPC / Barcode

0767981114323

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1 / CD / Extended format: No / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No

Artist

Al Green

Genre GB

Funk / Soul

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<p>Soul/gospel singer and songwriter, Al Green, was born on 13 April 1946 in Forrest City, Arkansas, USA. He started his career as Al Greene but has used the name Al Green since the late 1960s. In addition to his music career, he has been a pastor at Memphis' Full Gospel Tabernacle since 1976. Al Green was inducted into the Rock And Roll Hall of Fame in 1995 as a performer and into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2004.</p>

Remastered version on Fat Possum. The final offering from the magical collaboration between Al Green and producer Willie Mitchell, 'Have a Good Time' found the dynamic duo in the midst of a creative crossroads. Green had just purchased a church and was looking to pour his energies into his congregation and his newly appointed title of Reverend. While the message and tones of religion aren't as obvious on 'Have a Good Time' as they were on 'Full of Fire', they still do make appearances here and there. But it wasn't just a change in Green's life that made Have a Good Time so distinct from the earlier classics; it was also the changing shift in cultural tastes (thanks in no small part to the emergence of disco to the forefront of America's collective dance consciousness). With style shifts and members of a once solid backing band going their own way, the writing on the wall couldn't have been any clearer to both Green and Mitchell. With 'Have a Good Time' they recapture moments of classic collaboration, the wonderful 'Nothing Takes the Place of You' being the prime example of how good the two could be when they were in sync.

Have A Good Time

Music GB