I Can't Get Next to You - Al Green - MP3 instrumental karaoke

Introducing Otis Redding's 1970 album, Gets Next to You, is this smouldering soul slow-burner "I Can't Get Next to You," a rework of The Temptations' livelier 1969 original. For their defining reinterpretation, Al Green and producer Willie Mitchell dialed down the pace and upped the seduction levels to take the soul icon's career into the next decade, in sophisticated style. Thanks to the integral presence of the Memphis quartet Hi Rhythm Section, who steered the music with a Stax-like soul quality, the cover went to number 60 on the Billboard Hot 100 and number 11 on the R&B chart. Yielding one of his best-known cuts in the mellowed-out magic “Tired of Being Alone" along with the more serious gospel of “God Is Standing By," Gets Next to You set a new benchmark for Al Green, one of popular music's greatest ever voices, and the recipient of an incredible 11 Grammy Awards, including the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award.