This postings favorite song: "Rainin' In My Heart"

I post a lot of stuff here and I think that from now on, I will post my favorite song of the posting again by itself. The video tonight is Al Green's "Rainin' In My Heart".
I have always loved the uniqueness of his voice, but for whatever reason, Having him playing a guitar (albeit rhythm) as well as singing this...well...you just gotta love it.

Al Green

Albert Greene (born April 13, 1946), better known as Al Green, is an American gospel and soul music singer who received great acclaim in the 1970s, and a member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
Green was born in Forrest City, Arkansas. He was the sixth of ten children born to Robert and Cora Greene. The son of a sharecropper, he started performing at age ten 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. His father kicked him out of the group because he caught Green listening to Jackie Wilson.

Let's Stay Together



FOR THE GOOD TIMES



On October 18, 1974, Mary Woodson, a girlfriend of Green's, assaulted him before killing herself at his Memphis home.Although she was already married, Woodson reportedly became upset when Green refused to marry her.At some point during the evening, Woodson doused Green with a pan of boiling grits while he was showering causing third-degree burns on Green's back, stomach and arms. Woodson then shot herself with Green's gun.

Love and Happiness



Green cited the incident as a wake-up call to change his life.He became an ordained pastor of the Full Gospel Tabernacle in Memphis in 1976.

Rainin' In My Heart



Tired of Being Alone Live

Otis Redding

Otis Ray Redding, Jr. (September 9, 1941 – December 10, 1967) was an American soul singer. Often called the "King of Soul", he is renowned for an ability to convey strong emotion through his voice. According to the website of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (where he was inducted in 1989), Redding's name is "synonymous with the term soul, music that arose out of the black experience in America through the transmutation of gospel and rhythm and blues into a form of funky, secular testifying." In addition, rock critic Jon Landau said in 1967 that '"Otis Redding is rock & roll". Redding died in a plane crash at the age of 26, one month before his biggest hit, "(Sittin' on) The Dock of the Bay", was released. In 2008 American music magazine Rolling Stone named Otis the eighth greatest singer of all time.

My Girl



Try A Little Tenderness



On December 9, 1967, Redding and his backup band, The Bar-Kays, made an appearance in Cleveland, Ohio on the local "Upbeat" television show. The next afternoon, Redding, his manager, the pilot, and four members of The Bar-Kays were killed when his Beechcraft 18 airplane crashed into Lake Monona in Madison, Wisconsin, on December 10, 1967
"(Sittin' On) The Dock of the Bay" was recorded only three days before Redding's death. According to Nashid Munyan, curator of the Stax Museum of American Soul Music, Redding considered the song unfinished, having whistled the tune of one verse for which he intended to compose lyrics later.
The song was released (with the place-holding whistling intact) in January 1968 and became Redding's only number-one single on the Billboard Hot 100, and the first posthumous single in U.S. chart history.

Sitting on the dock of the bay