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Al Green: Call Me/Explores Your Mind

Pat Blashill, Rolling Stone, 29 June 2004

WHEN WRITER Toni Morrison said that black artists always seem to move with ease, she was talking about someone like Al Green. He sings from the side of his mouth, seemingly straight from the heart — his every sigh, mutter, trill and moan worth 100 twenty-dollar words — yet it seems like he's just being Al.

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