Morgan Freeman, Al Green stun with duet of ‘Let’s…
Let’s hope they keep collectively for an encore.
Morgan Freeman rang in 2025 by performing a duet of Al Green’s “Let’s Stay Together” with none different than Green himself.
The duo sang the 1972 R&B traditional at Freeman’s Ground Zero Blues Club in Clarksdale, Mississippi, on New Year’s Eve.
The membership posted a video of the efficiency on Instagram, captioning the clip, “Morgan Freeman & Al Green LADIES AND GENTLEMEN!”
Morgan Freeman and Rock and Roll Hall of Famer Al Green sang Green’s “Let’s Stay Together” on New Year’s Eve. Morgan Freeman/X
The duo carried out at Freeman’s blues bar in Clarksdale, Mississippi. Ground Zero Blues Club
Green, 78, commented on the post with a occasion popper emoji.
Freeman, 87, additionally shared in regards to the night on social, posting two photographs from the night on X (previously often called Twitter).
“We ushered in the New Year with Al Green and Kingfish at Ground Zero last night,” the star wrote. “Happy New Year, everyone!”
CNN reporter Omar Jimenez was on the Oscar winner’s blues bar and caught the sudden efficiency.
“We ushered in the New Year with Al Green and Kingfish at Ground Zero last night,” Freeman wrote on X. “Happy New Year, everyone!” Ground Zero Blues Club
Freeman constructed his Ground Zero Blues Club in 2001. Ground Zero Blues Club
“Morgan Freeman got on stage to make his ‘dream come true.’ He said it was to sing with Al Green,” Jimenez captioned a clip of Freeman and Green’s duet.
Jimenez additionally interviewed Freeman dwell on CNN during the New Year’s Eve broadcast.
Asked in regards to the membership’s origins, Freeman defined that he determined to create the bar after visiting Clarksdale and discovering there weren’t many blues venues on the town.
“We don’t really have em. Didn’t exist,” Freeman recollects the mayor of Clarksdale telling him.
“So the decision was made right then — you got to to have a blues club. We got to do something,” he stated. “There was a little club called Crossroads, but [there was] no guarantee that it would be up and running on Friday night or something. So we built this.”
With the help of co-owners Eric Meier, Howard Stovall and the late Bill Luckett, Freeman opened Ground Zero Blues Club in 2001 “to celebrate the area’s rich blues heritage and to provide a venue in which it can continue,” in line with the venue’s web site.
Clarksdale is believed to be the place blues music started.
Freeman not too long ago paid tribute to a different well-known jazz-lover, his buddy Clint Eastwood. The “Lioness” star introduced Eastwood, 94, with an award named within the “Juror #2” director’s honor on the 2024 Monterey Jazz Festival in California in September.
“It was a great pleasure presenting my friend, Clint Eastwood, with the inaugural Clint Eastwood Award for Cultural Leadership at the @MontereyJazzFestival last weekend,” he captioned a picture of him and Eastwood on Instagram.
“Clint is a true musician: pianist, composer and a jazz aficionado!” he added. “We had a wonderful time listening to the incredible music of Kyle Eastwood and Mavis Staples!”
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