{{Use mdy dates|date=June 2025}} {{Infobox album| | name = Al Green Is Love | type = Album | artist = Al Green | cover = Al Green Is Love (Al Green album - cover art).jpg | alt = | caption = Standard/Original artwork | released = August 1975 | recorded = 1974–1975 | venue = | studio = | genre = Soul | length = 41:25 | label = Hi | producer = Willie Mitchell | prev_title = Al Green's Greatest Hits | prev_year = 1975 | next_title = Full of Fire | next_year = 1976 | misc = {{Singles | name = Al Green Is Love | type = studio | single1 = L-O-V-E (Love) | single1date = February 19, 1975 }} }} {{Music ratings |rev1 = AllMusic |rev1score = {{Rating|4|5}}<ref>[{{AllMusic|class=album|id=r8656|pure_url=yes}} AllMusic review]</ref> |rev2 = ''Christgau's Record Guide'' |rev2Score = B+<ref>{{cite book|last=Christgau|first=Robert|author-link=Robert Christgau|year=1981|title=Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies|publisher=Ticknor & Fields|isbn=0899190251|chapter=Al Green: ''Al Green Is Love''|chapter-url=http://www.robertchristgau.com/get_album.php?id=64|access-date=March 18, 2017 |url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/christgausrecord00robe_1}}</ref> |rev3 = ''MSN Music'' (Consumer Guide) |rev3Score = A<ref name="Christgau">{{cite web|last=Christgau|first=Robert|url=https://www.robertchristgau.com/xg/cg/ew2012-02.php|title=Al Green/D'Angelo|work=MSN Music|date=February 24, 2012|access-date=March 18, 2017}}</ref> |rev4 = ''The Rolling Stone Album Guide'' |rev4score = {{Rating|3.5|5}}<ref>Hoard, Christian (November 2, 2004). "[https://books.google.com/books?id=t9eocwUfoSoC&pg=PA346 Review: ''Al Green Is Love'']". ''The New Rolling Stone Album Guide'': 345–346.</ref> |rev5 = ''The Village Voice'' |rev5score = A−<ref>{{cite news|last=Christgau|first=Robert|url=http://www.robertchristgau.com/xg/cg/cgv10-75.php|title=Consumer Guide|newspaper=The Village Voice|at=Music section|date=October 27, 1975|access-date=2012-02-25}}</ref> }} '''''Al Green Is Love''''' is the ninth album by soul singer Al Green. It was his final of six consecutive albums to hit number 1 on the R&B/Soul Albums chart, and it peaked into the Top 40 on the Pop Albums chart.
== Track listing == All tracks composed by Al Green; except where indicated ;Side one # "L-O-V-E (Love)" (Green, Willie Mitchell, Mabon "Teenie" Hodges) – 3:09 # "Rhymes" (Green, Mabon "Teenie" Hodges) – 3:36 # "The Love Sermon" (Green, Willie Mitchell, Earl Randle) – 6:34 # "There Is Love" (Willie Mitchell, Lawrence Seymore, Yvonne Mitchell) – 3:04 # "Could I Be the One?" (Green, Willie Mitchell, Ann Mitchell) – 4:06
;Side two # "Love Ritual" – 4:19 # "I Didn't Know" – 7:46 # "Oh Me, Oh My (Dreams in My Arms)" (Green, Willie Mitchell, Mabon "Teenie" Hodges) – 2:48 # "I Gotta Be More (Take Me Higher)" – 2:45 # "I Wish You Were Here" (Willie Mitchell) – 3:18
==Personnel== *Al Green - vocals *Larry Lee, Teenie Hodges - guitar *Leroy Hodges - bass *Charles Hodges - organ, piano *Howard Grimes - drums, congas *Conga Lou (Johnny Keyes) - congas *Archie Turner, Michael Allen - piano *Charles Chalmers, Donna Rhodes, Sandra Rhodes - backing vocals *Andrew Love, Lewis Collins - tenor saxophone *Wayne Jackson - trumpet *James Mitchell - baritone saxophone, string arrangements *Jack Hale - trombone *The Memphis Strings - strings
==See also== *List of ''Billboard'' number-one R&B albums of 1975
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== Further reading == * [https://www.rollingstone.com/music/albumreviews/al-green-is-love-19751120 Rolling Stone review]
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