Al Green - I'm Still in Love with You (w/ guest Conor Meara)

The Great Albums

Bill Lambusta

Albums, Music Commentary, Criticism, Billlambusta, Brianerickson, Music

4.3 • 749 Ratings

🗓️ 21 September 2015

⏱️ 94 minutes

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Summary

Singer/songwriter and musician from Roy Orbitron (royorbitron.org) joins Bill and Brian to talk about Al Green's I'm Still in Love with You (1972, Hi). Recorded at the hieght of his fame and creative output with producer Willie Mitchell, with this album Al Green found a comfort zone for his sweetly soulful music. Filled mostly with love songs and ballads, the album gently helps its listeners as they make their way through a romantic eveing. Brian, Bill, and Conor talk about their personal experiences finding this music, the simple intricacies of the production, Al Green's unique voice, Al's alluring pose on the back cover, how underrated Al Green is amongst the soul giants, and (of course) a track by track review of the album!

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0:00.0	Spending my day
0:02.0	My day
0:14.0	Thinking about you, girl, being here with you, being there with you, being near with you, I do like I do.
0:46.5	Hello, welcome to the great albums podcast.
0:49.5	I'm Bill.
0:50.0	And I'm Brian.
0:50.8	And as we were just listening to you right there, today we're going to be talking about
0:54.3	Al Green's 1972 album, I'm Still in Love with You, if you are a new listener to the podcast. What we do
1:03.6	hear every week is we take a different album of music and talk about what makes it great. We're
1:08.5	going to talk about our personal connections with it.
1:14.4	We're going to talk a little bit about what went into the production of it and the artist,
1:17.3	and then we're going to do a track-by-track review of the album.
1:19.4	That sounds good, Bill. Let's do that.
1:24.4	Okay. And we're going to do that with our friend Connor Mara.
1:25.9	Hello, RadioLand.
1:27.9	How are you doing, Connor? I'm good.
1:31.2	I'm, like, really excited to just sit here and listen to Al Green.
1:34.4	You've got me, like, in this very comfortable chair.
1:38.3	I'm feeling, you know, it's a nice day.
1:45.3	Connor is the guitarist and primary songwriter and singer for a band called Roy Orbitron.
1:46.3	I am, that's correct.
1:47.8	You want to tell us a little bit about the band?
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