Where have all the good men gone and where are all the gods?

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Willie Mitchell

Mitchell, right, helped make Al Green, left, a star of soul music on the Hi Records label

Willie Mitchell, who has died aged 81, was an icon of Memphis music. As producer, arranger and sometimes co-writer, he moulded the careers of the soul singers OV Wright, Otis Clay, Ann Peebles and, especially, Al Green. Out of his shabby studio at 1320 South Lauderdale came Wright’s A Nickel and a Nail, Peebles’s I Can’t Stand the Rain and I’m Gonna Tear Your Playhouse Down, Syl Johnson’s Take Me to the River, and Green’s Let’s Stay Together – recordings now regarded as imperishable classics of soul music.

via guardian.co.uk

Listen to Mitchell’s instrumental gem Prayer Meetin’ at Red Kelly’s secondary blog, The “A” Side: http://redkelly2.blogspot.com/2010/01/willie-mitchell-prayer-meetin-hi-2147.html

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