Al Green - I Can't Get Next To You

Al Green is a much deeper artist than he gets credit for. In the post below I bring up the fact that the black canon includes songs where the singer claims powers over women that are either extreme or supernatural, while also including songs where the singer feels powerless and despairs of ever getting the girl. Leave it to Al Green to combine the two. 

Here, the singer cheerfully explains his wonderful powers over the natural world, but by the end of the song he admits that he cannot even get this girl's phone number. These early Al Green albums were a welcome revival of the (drummer) Al Jackson driven Memphis sound, reborn on Hi Records and produced by Willie Mitchell.