The Reverend Al Green is known the world over for his extraordinary voice, his unmistakable sound and his legendary hits. It was in the early 1970s that Green carved his place in music history with a run of celebrated hits that made him not just an R&B star but a pop icon. Green started singing professionally at age nine when he and his brothers formed a gospel quartet, the Greene Brothers, in their hometown of Forest City, Arkansas. (Green dropped the final "e" from his surname when he went solo.) They toured the gospel circuits in the South and then began performing around Michigan when the family relocated to Grand Rapids. At age sixteen, Green formed a pop group with high school friends and they released a single, "Back Up Train" in 1967 under the name, Al Greene and the Soul Mates … the single went to #5 on the national R&B chart. It was in 1969 when Green then decided to go solo and after meeting renowned bandleader, arranger and trumpeter, Willie Mitchell, he signed to Mitchell’s Hi Records label and recorded a total of eight albums that sold over twenty million copies worldwide. His many hit singles included “Let’s Stay Together,” “I’m Still in Love With You,” “You Ought to Be With Me,” “Here I Am (Come and Take Me)” and “Sha-La-La (Make Me Happy).” He and Mitchell worked together until 1976 when Green began to concentrate on gospel music recording numerous albums and since 1979, he has led his Baptist congregation, the Full Gospel Tabernacle in Memphis, Tennessee. Green received a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 2002 and then returned to his R&B roots in 2003 with the release of the secular album, I Can’t Stop followed two years later with Everything’s OK which reunited him with Mitchell. Here he embraced both worlds by releasing a "secular" album under the name, the Reverend Al Green—a symbolic gesture perhaps but a significant one nonetheless. His most recent album, Lay It Down will be released later this month and will kick off his summer tour which begins in June and will include a performance at both the River Rock Casino Resort’s Show Theatre and the Boulevard Casino’s Red Robinson Show Theatre in September.
Tickets on sale Thursday May 15 @ 10am

Tickets: Golden Circle $84.50 | Orchestra $69.50 | plus service charges