Al Green
Lenny Kaye, David Dalton, Rock 100, 1977
FINDING AN UNDISCOVERED TONE ON THE soul scale in the early seventies was almost like inventing a new color, but Al Green scanned the high gospel spectrum's upper octaves, found that sliver of sound no one else had heard before and slipped into it.
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