Al Green: Trust In God (Demon/Hi)****
Chris Roberts, Sounds, 16 February 1985
F*** GOD (Brando's first two words in Last Tango, actually), we're talking AL GREEN here. Quite simply, the best voice ever to co-exist with anything so mundane as a body. And if he chooses to chuck all his worldly goods up the Swanee, that's his look-out. But the Voice has a new record out, and it might illuminate your collective darkness for me to tell you what it's like.
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