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Craig‘s Funky Forty Album # 6. Al Green - Al Green Explores Your Mind

Craig’s guest this week is one of the greatest living rhythm and Blues singers, we welcome Bettye LaVette.

Craig’s guest this week is one of the greatest living rhythm and Blues singers, we welcome Bettye LaVette. Bettye has been enjoying a 21st century resurgence and this year she’s been inducted into the Blues Hall of Fame. At number 6 in Craig’s Funky Forty Album countdown it’s Al Green’s 1974 album Al Green Explores Your Mind. The album features one of our favourite soul songs, the original version of ‘Take Me To The River’.

3 hours

Music Played

  • Barbara Randolph

    Can I Get A Witness

    • Soul.
  • Danny Russell & Ronald Christoph

    Love Rescue

    • Sprechen.
  • Maceo Parker

    91Èȱ¬boy

    • ESC.
  • Patti Jo

    Make Me Believe In You (Tom Moulton Mix)

    • Original Selection.
  • The O’Jays

    Livin' for the Weekend

    • Philadelphia International.
  • Prince Fatty and Shniece McMenamin

    Black Rabbit

    • Evergreen Records.
  • Ann Robinson

    You Did It

    • All Brothers.
  • Jackson Sisters

    I Believe In Miracles

    • 100% Pure Groove (Various Artists).
    • Telstar.
  • TC & The Groove Family

    Let's Start

    • Self Released.
  • Marlena Shaw

    California Soul

    • Sampled 3 (Various Artists).
    • Virgin.
  • The New Birth

    Do The Funky Chicken

    • P&C Records.
  • Sweet Salvation

    Rocksteady

    • Elecktra.
  • Spinnage Au Trois

    • Tower of Power

      Only So Much Oil In The Ground

      • Warner Brothers.
    • Cerrone

      Supernature

      • Disco Inferno (Various Artists).
      • EastWest.
    • The Staple Singers

      Getting Too Big For Your Britches

      • City In The Sky.
      • Stax ‎.
  • First Choice

    Let No Man Put Asunder (Shep Pettibone Mix)

    • Suss'd Records ‎.
  • Nick Corbin

    Sunshine In (Smoove Mix)

    • Big AC Records.
  • Major Lance

    Um, Um, Um, Um, Um, Um

    • Kent Soul.
  • Gene Chandler

    Nothing Can Stop Me

    • Coolin' Out: 24 Carolina Classics Vol 1.
    • Charly.
    • 15.
  • The Impressions

    Get Up And Move

    • Kent.
  • Mungo's Hi Fi x Marina P & Tippa Irie & Dennis Alcapone

    The Beat Goes SKA!

    • Soul Radio.
    • Scotch Bonnet Records.
  • Yorkshire Film & Television Orchestra

    Somebody Stole My Thunder (feat. Martin Connor)

    • ATA Records.
  • Marvin Gaye

    Inner City Blues (Make Me Wanna Holler)

    • The Promised Land O.S.T. (Various).
    • Columbia.
  • Odetta

    Hit or Miss (Live)

    • It's Impossible.
    • Four Leaf Clover ‎.
  • Carl Carlton

    She A Bad Mama Jama

    • 20th Century Fox Records.
  • Sir Joe Quarterman & Free Soul

    (I Got) So Much Trouble In My Mind

    • The Best Of Blaxploitation.
    • Global TV.
    • 10.
  • St. Paul & The Broken Bones

    Like A Mighty River

    • Half the City.
  • Night Owls

    Gossip

    • F-Spot Records.
  • Omar

    Gave My Heart/It's So Interlood (feat. Leon Ware)

    • BBE.
  • Bettye LaVette

    Take Another Little Piece of My Heart

    • SSS International.
  • Interview With Bettye LaVette

    • Bettye LaVette

      Joy

      • Anti.
    • Bettye LaVette

      Blues For The Weepers

      • Verve Records.
  • Betty's Hotpot Trunk of Funk

    • Betty Wright

      Where Is The Love

      • Rhino Records.
    • Betty Wright

      Shoorah! Shoorah! (XS Short Edit)

      • Self Released.
    • Betty Griffin

      Free Spirit

      • Mopres Records.
    • Betty Davis

      Anti Love Song

      • Vampi Soul.
    • Betty Harris

      Mean Man

      • Soul Jazz Records.
    • Betty Everett

      You're No Good

      • Stateside.
    • Bettye Swann

      Suspicious Minds (DJ Spector Edit)

      • Self Released.
  • Craig‘s Funky Forty Album # 6. Al Green - Al Green Explores Your Mind

    • Al Green

      Here I Am (Come and Take Me)

      • Hi Records.
    • Al Green

      Call Me (Come Back 91Èȱ¬)

      • Hi Records.
    • Al Green

      Funny How Time Slips Away

      • Hi Records.
    • Al Green

      Your Love Is Like the Morning Sun

      • Hi Records.
    • Al Green

      Stand Up

      • Hi Records.
    • Al Green

      You Ought to Be With Me

      • Hi Records.
  • Le Visiteur

    Somebody

    • Self Released.

Broadcast

  • Sat 3 Oct 2020 18:00