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Al Green: Have A Good Time (London SHU 8505) ****

Davitt Sigerson, Black Music, February 1977

AL, WE WERE told, would have a completely new sound for this album. Full Of Fire was a commercial failure; the last big single had been 'L-O-V-E', from Is Love, which was in itself a poor seller by Green's standards. So Willie Mitchell said that the time had come to change up on Al's game, and the world waited.

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