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**SOURCE: DEEP THROAT VAR. 4.0**
**BREAKING / MUSIC INDUSTRY / SEPTEMBER 2024**
**THE GHOST OF AL GREEN: Unreleased 1978 Session Tapes Surface in Memphis Basement—Church Officials Silent, FBI Notified.**
We have learned from a highly placed source within the St. Louis–based Gospel Archives Trust that a fireproof safe, sealed with wax and bearing the phrase “FOR THE REVEREND’S EARS ONLY,” was discovered beneath a demolished funeral home in South Memphis late last week.
Inside: **seven reels of magnetic tape**, dated June 3–4, 1978—the same week Al Green walked away from secular music after a reported “burning bush” incident.
Two auditions, conducted by a retired audio engineer now under non-disclosure order, confirm the tapes contain:
- A fully produced, unreleased studio version of **“Love and Happiness”** —but with *different, jaw-dropping lyrics* that reference a “covenant of fire” and a female voice whispering a cryptic phrase in what sounds like Old Aramaic.
- A 12-minute spoken-word track in which Green references a **“third door”** in the Royal Studio, a “man in a white suit who had no shadow,” and an ultimatum delivered to him during a 1977 session that involved “a contract written in flame.”
Church attorneys have refused comment. The FBI’s Art Crime Unit has reportedly **seized the tapes under an obscure 1979 commerce clause**, claiming the artifacts “may contain coded communications.”
The Reverend Al Green, now 78, issued a one-line statement through his Nashville representative:
**“Some doors are meant to stay shut.”**
Stay tuned. This one is about to get *holy*.
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*This leak was verified by three independent sources