Soul legend Al Green is celebrating his 61st birthday today (April 13th). In 2005, Green released Everything's OK, the follow-up to his 2003 return to secular music called I Can't Stop, which reunited him with his longtime collaborator and producer Willie Mitchell. Green and Mitchell collaborated on most of Green's biggest hits from the '70s like "Let's Stay Together" and "I'm Still In Love With You."

Shortly after the release of Green's last album it was announced that a feature film based on Green's life was heading to the big screen starring ER leading man Mekhi Phifer, but so far there has been no word on when production will begin.

Green, who's been an ordained minister since 1976, was asked if he ever thought he would have attained so much in his lifetime: "No, I never did think... I'm a sharecropper's son. I'm nobody. I have a little bag of songs over here, I've got a Bible over here, and that's all I got. People come out, remember these songs better than me, and some of the songs are older than the people, so I think that I am blessed."

Al Green will next perform on April 29th at the Plymouth Jazz Fest in Tobago. His next U.S. date is set for May 18th in San Diego at Humphrey's Concerts By The Bay.

Green will join Etta James and B.B. King at King's 2007 summer's Blues Festival, which kicks off on July 24th in Hollywood, Florida at the Seminole Hard Rock Casino. 




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