Al Green Brings Love And Happiness To Soul Train
Prepare for Questlove's new book via this gem from the Soul Train archive.
SOUL TRAIN (1971 – 2006) was the primetime TV showcase for many of the finest musicians of the last 30 years, it's catalogue of exhilarating performances plotting a course through three decades of soul, funk, jazz, hip-hop and R&B.
Next month, The Roots' head-honcho Questlove (a man who has admitted he "bleeds Soul Train") will release Soul Train: The Music, Dance, and Style of a Generation, a new book set to chronicle the evolution of the show from its humble beginnings as the brainchild of creator/host Don Cornelius to its status as a career-defining stop-off point for such towering names as Tina Turner, Jackson 5, The Staple Singers, Stevie Wonder, James Brown, Aretha Franklin and Al Green – not to mention its place as a home-from-home for the LA hipsters who liked to throw shapes on the dancefloor.
For now, we'll turn to this 1973 clip of an incredibly dapper Al Green transferring the dimly-lit grooves of Love and Happiness to the Technicolor world of the Soul Train studio.