'Al Green' History:
AboutGreen was born in Forrest City, Arkansas. The son of a sharecropper, he started performing at age nine in a Forrest City quartet called the Greene Brothers; he dropped the final "e" from his last name years later as a solo artist. They toured extensively in the mid-1950s in the South until the Greenes moved to Grand Rapids, Michigan, when they began to tour around Michigan. He was kicked out of the group by his father because he was caught listening to Jackie Wilson. Green formed a group called Al Greene & the Creations in high school. Curtis Rogers and Palmer James, two members of the Creations, formed an independent label called Hot Line Music Journal. In 1967, under the new name Al Greene & the Soul Mates, the band recorded "Back Up Train" and released it on Hot Line Music; the song was an R&B chart hit. The Soul Mates' subsequent singles did not sell as well. Green came into contact with band leader Willie Mitchell of Memphis' Hi Records in 1969, when Mitchell hired him as a vocalist for a Texas show with Mitchell's band and then asked him to sign with the label. |
Al Green Discography:
| Release Title and date | |
 | Here I Am (Collectables) 2006 |
 | Al Green Is Love 2006 |
| Al Green 2005 | |
 | The Love Songs Collection 2005 |
 | Everything's OK 2005 |
 | Everything's OK (EP) 2005 |
 | I Can't Stop 2003 |
 | The Immortal Soul of Al Green (Disc 1) 2003 |
 | Love: The Essential (Disc 2) 2003 |
 | I'm Still in Love with You 2003 |
 | Gets Next to You (Bonus Tracks) 2003 |
 | Precious Lord 2002 |
 | Back Up Train 2002 |
 | The Very Best Of 2002 |
![The Very Best of [Music Club]](http://daz.com/img/00/00/04/0056.w75.jpg "The Very Best of [Music Club]") | The Very Best of [Music Club] 2001 |
 | Here I Am 2001 |
 | Don't Look Back 2001 |
| simply beautiful 2001 | |
![The Very Best of [Shock]](http://daz.com/img/00/00/04/0059.w75.jpg "The Very Best of [Shock]") | The Very Best of [Shock] 2001 |
![The Very Best of [EMI Canada]](http://daz.com/img/00/00/04/0058.w75.jpg "The Very Best of [EMI Canada]")
![Greatest Hits [UK]](http://daz.com/img/00/00/04/0113.w75.jpg "Greatest Hits [UK]")
![Greatest Hits (15-Track Limited Edition CD) [US]](http://daz.com/img/00/00/04/0166.w75.jpg "Greatest Hits (15-Track Limited Edition CD) [US]")
![Greatest Hits (15-Track Limited Edition CD) [US]](http://daz.com/img/00/00/04/0134.w75.jpg "Greatest Hits (15-Track Limited Edition CD) [US]")
 | He Is the Light 1995 |
 | The Supreme Al Green 1994 |
 | Green Is Blues 1993 |
 | White Christmas 1992 |
 | Love Is Reality 1992 |
 | One in a Million 1991 |
 | Compact Command Performances: 14 Greatest Hits 1990 |
 | You Say It 1990 |
 | Soul Survivor 1987 |
 | Tokyo . . . Live 1981 |
| and the message is love: the best of al green | |
| bobby womack | |
| cover me green | |
| feels like christmas 1983 | |
| full of fire | |
| gets next to you | |
| glory to his name | |
| gospel soul | |
| greatest gospel hits | |
| green is blue |
| the hi singles as and bs cd2 | |
| the hits | |
| the lord will make a way | |
| the lord will make a way & higher plane | |
| the very best cd1 | |
| trust in god | |
| ultimate gospel 1981-1985 | |
| volume two | |
| waiting on you |
