Everything's OK is a 2005 album by American

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 R&B singer Al Green

Al Green

Albert Greene , better known as Al Green, is an American gospel and soul music singer. He reached the peak of his popularity in the 1970s, with hit singles such as "You Oughta Be With Me", "I'm Still In Love With You", "Love and Happiness", and "Let's Stay Together"...

 (credited on the cover art and track credits of this album as "The Reverend Al Green"), produced by Willie Mitchell and Green, and released on the Blue Note

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 label. The album peaked at #19 on the R&B chart

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 and #50 on the pop chart

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, Green's first album to place in the pop top 50 since 1975.

Reception

Everything's OK was very positively received by critics, and has a favorable Metacritic

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 rating of 76/100 based on 11 reviews. Critics noted that in comparison with the previous I Can't Stop

I Can't Stop (album)

I Can't Stop is a 2003 album by American R&B singer Al Green, produced by Willie Mitchell and released on the Blue Note label. The album was Green's first release since 1995, his first for Blue Note and his first collaboration with Mitchell since 1985's He Is the Light; it was also Green's first...

, Everything's OK contained fewer conscious nods towards Green's 1970s Hi Records

Hi Records

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 heyday and had a more contemporary overall sound. In a very enthusiastic review in Rolling Stone

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, David Wild wrote "I Can't Stop was impressive, but something was missing. Everything's OK is something else entirely. This time...the tunes (are) top-notch. Everything's OK is...one more righteous, red-hot reason to treasure this surviving genius of soul", while Allmusic's Tim Sendra said "Consider I Can't Stop the rehab assignment in Triple A, while Everything's OK is the home run Green fans have been dreaming about. Writing in The Guardian

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, Betty Clarke stated "This is classic Green. To Mitchell's lush 1970s sound, with its bluesy horns and sexy strings, Green adds his ageless falsetto and rumbling sensuality." PopMatters

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 David Marchese noted "The groovier songs will put a glide in your stride and a dip in your hip, but it's the ballads that'll make you hit the repeat button. This is an album of old pros doing what they do best, and the ballads give them the best setting to do it in."

Track listing

1. "Everything's OK" (Al Green, Willie Mitchell) - 4:12
2. "You Are So Beautiful
   You Are So Beautiful
   "You Are So Beautiful" is a song written by Billy Preston and Bruce Fisher and Dennis Wilson of The Beach Boys. It was first recorded by Preston and made popular in a version by Joe Cocker....
   
   " (Bruce Fisher
   Bruce Fisher
   Bruce Fisher is an American songwriter, record producer, playwright and guitarist best known for his collaborations with Billy Preston.-Career:Born January 8, 1951, in Washington D.C., Fisher was raised in Chicago, Illinois, by his grandmother...
   
   , Billy Preston
   Billy Preston
   William Everett "Billy" Preston was a musician who gained notoriety and fame, first as a session musician for the likes of Sam Cooke, Ray Charles and The Beatles, and later finding fame as a solo artist with hits such as "Space Race", "Will It Go Round in Circles" and "Nothing from...
   
   ) - 3:34
3. "Build Me Up" (Green, Mitchell) - 3:50
4. "Perfect to Me" (Green, Mitchell) - 4:09
5. "Nobody But You" (Green, Mitchell) - 3:30
6. "Real Love" (Green) - 5:22
7. "I Can Make Music" (Green, Steve Potts, Leroy Hodges
   Leroy Hodges
   Electric bass player Leroy "Flick" Hodges is a relatively unknown soul musician.Paired with either Booker T. & the MGs's drummer Al Jackson or Stax staff drummer Howard Grimes, Leroy and The Hodges Brothers were the backing musicians for Al Green, Ann Peebles and several other soul, gospel and...
   
   , Lester Snell, Charles "Skip" Pitts
   Charles Pitts
   Charles "Skip" Pitts is an American soul / blues guitarist whose distinctive "wah-wah" style can be heard on Isaac Hayes' title track from the 1971 movie Shaft....
   
   , Bobby Manuel, Robert Clayborne) - 4:40
8. "Be My Baby" (Green) - 3:16
9. "Magic Road" (Green) - 3:43
10. "I Wanna Hold You" (Green) - 3:40
11. "Another Day" (Green) - 3:19
12. "All the Time" (Green, Manuel) - 4:01

Personnel

Al Green - Vocals

Donna Rhodes, Sandra Rhodes, Charlie Chalmers

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 - Background vocals

Lester Snell - Piano

Robert Clayborne - Organ

Charles "Skip" Pitts

Charles Pitts

Charles "Skip" Pitts is an American soul / blues guitarist whose distinctive "wah-wah" style can be heard on Isaac Hayes' title track from the 1971 movie Shaft....

, Bobby Manuel - Guitar

Leroy Hodges

Leroy Hodges

Electric bass player Leroy "Flick" Hodges is a relatively unknown soul musician.Paired with either Booker T. & the MGs's drummer Al Jackson or Stax staff drummer Howard Grimes, Leroy and The Hodges Brothers were the backing musicians for Al Green, Ann Peebles and several other soul, gospel and...

 - Bass

Steve Potts, Hector Diaz - Percussion

Scott Thompson - Trumpet

Bill Florez - Bass trombone

Jack Hale - Trombone

Andrew Love, Lannie McMillan - Tenor sax

Jim Spake - Baritone sax

Joan Gilbert, Daniel Gilbert, Gregory Morris, Liza Zurlinden - Violin

Anthony Gilbert, Beth Luscombe - Viola

Peter Spurbeck, Jonathan Kirkscey - Cello

Bobby Rush

Bobby Rush (musician)

Bobby Rush is an American blues and R&B musician, composer and singer. His style incorporates elements of soul blues, rap and funk.-Biography:...

- Harmonica