Gets Next to You [Bonus Track] - Al Green -CD -724354267925

All Music Guide After the shaky start of Green Is Blues, Al Green and producer Willie Mitchell established their classic sound with Greens second album, Gets Next to You. The main difference is in the rhythm section. Abandoning the gritty syncopations of deep Southern soul, the Hi Rhythm Section plays it slow and seductive, working a sultry, steady pulse that Green exploits with his remarkable voice. Alternating between Sam Cookes croon and Otis Reddings shout, Green develops his own distinctive style, and Gets Next to You only touches the surface of its depth. Although the album is filled with wonderful moments, few are as astonishing as Green and Mitchells reinterpretation of the Temptations "I Cant Get Next to You," which turns the original inside out. [Gets Next to You was reissued in 2003 with a bonus track.] Stephen Thomas Erlewine