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DISCID=85070f09
DTITLE=Al Green / Have A Good Time
DYEAR=1976
DGENRE=Rock
TTITLE0=Keep Me Crying
TTITLE1=Smile A Little Bit More
TTITLE2=I Tried To Tell Myself
TTITLE3=Something
TTITLE4=The Truth Marches On
TTITLE5=Have A Good Time
TTITLE6=Nothing Takes The Place Of You
TTITLE7=Happy
TTITLE8=Hold On Forever
EXTD=Have A Good Time\n2006 Hi Records/Capitol Records, Inc.\n\nOrigin
EXTD=ally Released December 1976\nCD Edition Released January 24, 2006
EXTD=\n\nAMG EXPERT REVIEW: The final offering from the magical collab
EXTD=oration between Al Green and producer Willie Mitchell, Have a Goo
EXTD=d Time found the dynamic duo in the midst of a creative crossroad
EXTD=s. Green had just purchased a church and was looking to pour his 
EXTD=energies into his congregation and his newly appointed title of R
EXTD=everend. While the message and tones of religion aren't as obviou
EXTD=s on Have a Good Time as they were on Full of Fire, they still do
EXTD= make appearances here and there. But it wasn't just a change in 
EXTD=Green's life that made Have a Good Time so distinct from the earl
EXTD=ier classics; it was also the changing shift in cultural tastes (
EXTD=thanks in no small part to the emergence of disco to the forefron
EXTD=t of America's collective dance consciousness). With style shifts
EXTD= and members of a once solid backing band going their own way, th
EXTD=e writing on the wall couldn't have been any clearer to both Gree
EXTD=n and Mitchell. With Have a Good Time they recapture moments of c
EXTD=lassic collaboration, the wonderful "Nothing Takes the Place of Y
EXTD=ou" being the prime example of how good the two could be when the
EXTD=y were in sync.  -- Rob Theakston\n\nHalf.com Details \nProducer:
EXTD= Al Green, Willie Mitchell \n\nAlbum Notes\nPersonnel: Al Green (
EXTD=vocals); Michael Toles (guitar, sitar); Teenie Hodges (guitar); T
EXTD=he Memphis Strings (strings); Andrew Love (alto saxophone); Lewis
EXTD= Collins, Bill Easley (tenor saxophone); James Mitchell (baritone
EXTD= saxophone); Wayne Jackson, Jack Hale, Jr. (trumpet); Jack Hale, 
EXTD=Jackie Thomas (trombone); Archie Turner, Michael Allen, James Bro
EXTD=wn (piano); Charles Hodges (organ); Leroy Hodges (bass); Howard G
EXTD=rimes (drums, conga, bongos); Gene Chrisman (drums); Rhodes, Chal
EXTD=mers & Rhodes (background vocals).\n\nRecorded at Royal Recording
EXTD= Studio and Allied Recording Studio, Memphis, Tennessee. Includes
EXTD= liner notes by Alan Robinson.\n\nAll tracks have been digitally 
EXTD=remastered.\n\nPersonnel: Al Green (vocals); Andrew Love (alto); 
EXTD=Bill Easley, Lewis Collins (tenor); Michael Toles (guitar, sitar)
EXTD=; Teenie Hodges (guitar); James Mitchell (baritone saxophone); Ja
EXTD=ck Hale (trumpet, trombone); Wayne Jackson (trumpet); Jackie Thom
EXTD=pson (trombone); James Brown, Michael Allen, Archie Turner (piano
EXTD=); Charles Hodges (organ); Leroy Hodges (bass instrument); Howard
EXTD= Grimes (drums, congas, bongos); Gene Chrisman (drums).\n\nIndust
EXTD=ry Reviews\n3 stars out of 5 - ...the last album [Green] made bef
EXTD=ore his religious conversion....it contains the hit singles, 'Kee
EXTD=p Me Crying' and 'I Tried to Tell Myself'...\nQ (02/01/2000)\n\n.
EXTD=..the final album with [producer/co-writer, Willie] Mitchell....w
EXTD=ith whom he'd forged the sound that had made his name....Thorough
EXTD=ly pleasant...\nMojo (02/01/2000)\n\n\nROLLING STONE REVIEW\nIf h
EXTD=is records are any indication, Al Green is a troubled, no, haunte
EXTD=d man. Imagine the spiritual afflictions that prompted the theme 
EXTD=of "Keep Me Cryin'," Green's latest single and a song from Have a
EXTD= Good Time: "Well I pleased all the people/But I couldn't please 
EXTD=the crowd/So I got down on my knees and said/Father, wouldn't you
EXTD= clear my head/They keep me crying all the time." What makes the 
EXTD=thing even stranger is the song's foundation: a sprightly rhythm 
EXTD=topped by a sweet alto, and brassy trumpet fanfares replacing the
EXTD= usually dark and moody Memphis horns. Somehow the apparent contr
EXTD=adictions between tone and theme work, and "Keep Me Crying" is on
EXTD=e of the great Al Green singles of recent years.\n\nAfter the rel
EXTD=atively adventurous Al Green Is Love, Green and producer Willie M
EXTD=itchell scampered back to more conservative territory on last yea
EXTD=r's Full of Fire and again on Have a Good Time. Al's recent annou
EXTD=ncement that he intends to bring religion into his music has not 
EXTD=brought any appreciable changes. To be sure, there are three gosp
EXTD=el songs here, including the marvelous Sam Cooke/Soul Stirrers ti
EXTD=tle cut, but too often Green and Mitchell fall back on ploys from
EXTD= previous albums, including yet another country-soul weeper, Tous
EXTD=saint McCall's "Nothing Takes the Place of You," which fails to r
EXTD=each the stark melancholy of the original. Near the end of side t
EXTD=wo Green crows, "I'm happy," but it is "Something," on side one, 
EXTD=that truly sets the tone of this album: "Something is doggin' me.
EXTD=... Whatever it is I can't leave it alone." (RS 231 - Jan 27, 197
EXTD=7)  -- JOE MCEWEN
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