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Al Green — Let's Stay Together

Name: Let's Stay Together
Description: Al Green and producer Willie Mitchell made every Hi Records album in the same building — a converted movie theatre in Memphis called Royal Recording. Mitchell's approach was to layer live string sections over deliberately lo-fi drums, creating a sound that felt intimate no matter how loud you played it. Let's Stay Together spent nine weeks at number one on the R&B charts.

Let's Stay Together · 1971

Label: Hi Records · Genre: Soul / Soul · Country: USA · From: Memphis, TN, North America

Al Green and producer Willie Mitchell made every Hi Records album in the same building — a converted movie theatre in Memphis called Royal Recording. Mitchell's approach was to layer live string sections over deliberately lo-fi drums, creating a sound that felt intimate no matter how loud you played it. Let's Stay Together spent nine weeks at number one on the R&B charts.

Did you know: Al Green wrote the title track in a single afternoon after a breakup argument with his girlfriend. He sang it in one take. Mitchell was reluctant to release it because he thought it sounded too simple.

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