MUSIC REVIEWS: Pop, country/roots, jazz and classical releases (Lexington Herald-Leader)

Pop: AL GREEN “Lay It Down” (EMI, 3 stars) Let’s be clear: Al Green is never again scaling the supersexy, ultra-vulnerable Memphis-soul heights he reached under the aegis of Willie Mitchell on Hi Records in the early 1970s. But “Lay It Down,” produced by Philadelphia soulmeisters James Poyser and Ahmir “?uestlove” Thompson, is as close as Green has gotten to that high-altitude soul …

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