Editing Al Green (section)

=== Return to secular music ===
"Let's Stay Together" was later covered by Tina Turner, her second collaboration with the British Heaven 17 and British Electric Foundation production team after "Ball of Confusion" in 1982, and served as her comeback single in late 1983. Unlike Al Green's version, Turner sings verse 2 first, then verse 1 when the band starts playing. Green returned to secular music in 1988 recording "[[Put a Little Love in Your Heart]]" with [[Annie Lennox]].<ref name="LarkinSM"/> Featured on the soundtrack to the movie ''[[Scrooged]]'', the song became Green's first top-10 pop hit since 1974. Green had a hit in 1989 with "The Message is Love" with producer [[Arthur Baker (musician)|Arthur Baker]]. Two years later, he recorded the theme song to the short-lived show ''[[Good Sports]]''.<ref>{{cite magazine | title = Good Sports | magazine = Entertainment Weekly | author = Tucker, Ken | url = https://ew.com/article/1991/01/25/good-sports/ | date=January 25, 1991}}</ref> In 1993, he signed with [[RCA Records|RCA]] and with Baker again as producer, released the album, ''Don't Look Back''. Green received his ninth Grammy award for his collaboration with [[Lyle Lovett]] for their duet of "[[Funny How Time Slips Away]]". Green's 1995 album, ''[[Your Heart's In Good Hands]]'', was released around the time that Green was inducted to the [[Rock and Roll Hall of Fame]].<ref name=thinice>{{cite book|last=Van Til|first=Reinder |author2=Olson, Gordon|title=Thin Ice: Coming of Age in Grand Rapids|publisher=Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing|year=2007|pages=225–226|isbn=978-0-8028-2478-3}}</ref> The one single released from the album, "[[Keep On Pushing Love (song)|Keep On Pushing Love]]", was described as "invoking the original, sparse sound of his [Green's] early classics".<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.cduniverse.com/search/xx/music/pid/1103846/a/Your+Heart's+In+Good+Hands.htm |title=Al Green – Your Heart's In Good Hands CD Album |website= CDuniverse.com |date=November 7, 1995 |access-date=April 18, 2014}}</ref>

[[File:Al Green@SonomaJazz2008.jpg|thumb|200px|Green performing at the Sonoma Jazz festival, May 23, 2008]] 
In 2000, Green released his autobiography, ''Take Me to the River''. Two years later, he earned the [[Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award]] and recorded a hit R&B duet with [[Ann Nesby]] on the song, "Put It On Paper". Green again reunited with Willie Mitchell in 2003 for the album, ''[[I Can't Stop (album)|I Can't Stop]]''.<ref name=":2" /> A year later, Green re-recorded his previous song, "Simply Beautiful", with [[Queen Latifah]] on the latter's album, ''[[The Dana Owens Album]]''. In 2005, Green and Mitchell collaborated on ''[[Everything's OK (album)|Everything's OK]]''.

Green's 2008 album, ''[[Lay It Down (Al Green album)|Lay It Down]]'', was produced by [[Questlove|Ahmir "Questlove" Thompson]] and [[James Poyser]].<ref>{{cite magazine |last=Cohen |first=Jonathan |title=The Roots Plot Tour, ?uestlove Reworks Pharrell |url=http://www.billboard.com/articles/news/56443/the-roots-plot-tour-uestlove-reworks-pharrell |magazine=[[Billboard (magazine)|Billboard.com]] |date=December 14, 2006}}</ref> It became Green's first album to reach the top 10 since the early 1970s. The album features a minor R&B hit with the ballad, "Stay with Me (By the Sea)", featuring [[John Legend]], and also includes duets with [[Anthony Hamilton (musician)|Anthony Hamilton]] and [[Corinne Bailey Rae]].<ref>{{cite web|url={{BillboardURLbyName|artist=al green|chart=all}} |title=''Lay It Down'': Album Review |last=Jurek |first=Thom |work=Billboard.com |access-date=August 7, 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080531134401/http://www.billboard.com/artist/278275/al+green/chart |archive-date=May 31, 2008 |url-status=dead}}</ref> During an interview for promotion of the album, Green admitted that he would have liked to duet with [[Marvin Gaye]]: "In those days, people didn't sing together like they do now."<ref>{{cite magazine |last=Scaggs |first=Austin |title=Al Green's Soul Revival |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/21023889/al_greens_soul_revival |url-status=dead |magazine=[[Rolling Stone]] |date=June 12, 2008 |access-date=November 6, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080605230837/http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/21023889/al_greens_soul_revival |archive-date=June 5, 2008}}</ref>

In 2009, Green recorded "[[People Get Ready (song)|People Get Ready]]" with [[Heather Headley]] on the album ''[[Oh Happy Day: An All-Star Music Celebration]]''.<ref>{{cite news |title=Jon Bon Jovi, Queen Latifah go gospel for "Day" |url=https://www.reuters.com/article/musicNews/idUSTRE52Q6WQ20090327 |publisher=Reuters |date=March 27, 2009}}</ref> In 2010, Green performed "Let's Stay Together" on ''[[Later... with Jools Holland]]''. On September 13, 2018, Al Green released his first new recording in almost over ten years, "[[Before the Next Teardrop Falls (song)|Before the Next Teardrop Falls]]", most famously recorded by Freddy Fender in 1975. It was produced by Matt Ross-Spang and is part of Amazon Music's new "Produced By" series.<ref>{{cite web |last=Powers |first=Ann |title=Hear Al Green's First New Recording In Nearly A Decade |url=https://www.npr.org/sections/allsongs/2018/09/13/647053567/hear-al-greens-first-new-recording-in-nearly-a-decade?t=1538994456585 |publisher=NPR |date=September 13, 2018 |access-date=October 14, 2018}}</ref>