Call Me
by Al Green
- Type: Album
- Released: May 1973
- Label: Hi
- Country: United States
- Length: 35:28
- Community rating: 4.49/5 from 7 ratings
Album Notes & Community Reviews
Regarded as a creative peak for Al Green, 'Call Me' refines his signature sound by balancing his nuanced, emotive vocal performances with the increasingly lush, string-augmented production of Willie Mitchell. The album's material explores themes of love, loneliness, and devotion, seamlessly integrating country covers by Hank Williams and Willie Nelson alongside soulful originals. Green's deeply personal delivery is anchored by the supremely tight grooves of the Hi Rhythm Section, creating an intimate yet polished work that stands as a landmark of 1970s soul.
Genres
Descriptors: soulful, velvety, ballad, groove-laden, falsetto
Tracklist
- Call Me (Come Back Home) (3:04)
- Have You Been Making out Ok (3:45)
- Stand Up (3:28)
- I'm so Lonesome I Could Cry (3:13)
- Your Love Is Like the Morning Sun (3:11)
- Here I Am (Come and Take Me) (4:16)
- Funny How Time Slips Away (5:35)
- You Ought to Be with Me (3:19)
- Jesus Is Waiting (5:37)
Credits
- Al Green - vocals, producer
- Charles Chalmers - background vocals, horn arrangements, string arrangements
- Howard Grimes - drums
- Jack Hale Sr. - trombone
- Charles Hodges - hammond organ, piano
- Leroy Hodges - bass
- Mabon "Teenie" Hodges - guitar
- Wayne Jackson - trumpet
- Ed Logan - tenor saxophone
- Andrew Love - tenor saxophone
- The Memphis Strings - strings
- James Mitchell - baritone saxophone, horn arrangements, string arrangements
- Donna Rhodes - backing vocals
- Sandra Rhodes - backing vocals
- Al Jackson Jr. - drums
- Archie Turner - piano
- Willie Mitchell - producer, engineer
- Margaret Goldfarb - assistant producer
- Kathy Kinslow - assistant producer
- Charles Levan - assistant producer
- Bud O'Shea - executive producer
- Eli Okun - executive producer
- Cheryl Pawelski - assistant producer
- Howard Craft - mastered by
- Jim Cummins - photography by [photos]