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Al Green’s Latest Cover Is a Stirring Take on R.E.M.’s ‘Everybody Hurts’
Al Green is back with a new single, offering up a stirring rendition of R.E.M.'s 1992 hit, 'Everybody Hurts.'
In a statement Green said when recording “Everybody Hurts,” “I could really feel the heaviness of the song, and I wanted to inject a little touch of hope and light into it. For the sessions, he’s reunited with members of the Hi Rhythm Section — organ player Reverend Charles Hodges, bassist Leroy Hodges, and piano player Archie “Hubbie” Turner — who played on several Green albums in the late Seventies (including Al Green Explores Your Mind, which appears on our new list of the Best Albums of 1974). Others involved include guitarist Will Sexton and drummer Steve Potts of Booker T. & and the M.G.’s; producer Clay Jones; and Stax legend Lester Snell, who’s been arranging the strings.
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