Old Time Lovin'

I can't believe it took me 23 years to find and appreciate this album. If you've got forty minutes to listen, I urge you to check out Al Green's Let's Stay Together in its entirety.

I could write a whole essay about my experience of music, and how few artists of color I've actively sought out in my life. And I hope I will—in a distracted frenzy, I just abandoned this post for 30 minutes to write a pitch on that very topic.

First things first, though: if you do nothing else today, spend three minutes with this song.

-"Old Time Lovin'" by Al Green, from Let's Stay Together (1972)