Willie Mitchell: Happy Birthday Soul Music Pioneer

With the 2017 book Soul Survivor: A Biography of Al Green by Jimmy McDonough, and the popularity of Green’s recordings on reissue CD’s and streaming outlets, it’s appropriate to display a 2004 interview I initially conduced for HITS magazine with his influential record producer Willie Mitchell. A portion of this conversation appears in the just published McDonough title. The timelessly sensual groove of both Al Green The Immortal Soul of Al Green, a four CD set released in 2004, and an earlier Hi Records Memphis sound three-CD package, Hi Times: The R&B Years, issued by the Right Stuff label, […] The post Willie Mitchell: Happy Birthday Soul Music Pioneer first appeared on Music Connection Magazine.