AL GREEN - Let's Stay Together LP blues “Machine” highlights the work-hierarchy struggle

“Machine” highlights the work-hierarchy struggle (you told me just what I should do / but the problem is you’re only human / and I just can’t listen to you / machine

The band’s name is a combination of organist Booker T

A fourteen-piece string section

Disc labels replicate original labels on 1938 acetate

AL GREEN - Let's Stay Together LP blues “Machine” highlights the work-hierarchy struggleThe album that made Al Green a household name in the ranks of fellow contemporaneous soul singers Marvin Gaye and Isaac Hayes, Let's Stay Together doesn't disappoint. Let's Stay Together epitomizes the Hi Records sound, a soul sound that can best be described as equally gritty and smooth, inspired heavily by the Stax Atlantic Memphis sound of the 60's (in particular, Otis Redding, Sam & Dave, and Solomon Burke), but with a bit more sweetness (such as