Gets Next to You

1. I Cant Get Next to You 3:48 2. Are You Lonely for Me. Baby? 3:58 3. God Is Standing By 3:14 4. Tired of Being Alone 2:52 5. Im a Ram 3:47 6. Driving Wheel 2:59 7. Light My Fire 3:55 8. You Say It 2:52 9. Right Now. Right Now 2:52 10. All Because 2:53 11. Ride Sally Ride 3:56Bonus Track 12. True Love 2:44Bonus Track 13. Ill Be Standing By 3:20Bonus Track

All Music GuideAfter 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