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In those benighted pre-Chili Peppers dark ages of the mid-'70s, the notion of a bunch of Caucasian Scotsmen laying down heavy funk seemed an odd one. Even a cursory listen to AWB puts any such reservations quickly to rest. Alan Gorrie's soulful ... Full Descriptionvocals and percussive, syncopated basslines interact perfectly with Hamish Stuart's funky, rhythmic guitar work. On the band's signature tune, the mostly instrumental "Pick Up the Pieces," the theme is stated by a punchy-but-slinky horn section, with sinuous interpolations from Hamish. Here the band demonstrates its impressive rhythmic facility and its ability to stop on a dime (the death-defying groove rivals the JBs in their prime).
For a group capable of such intense polyrhythmic interaction, the Average White Band keeps things surprisingly song-based, and Gorrie's vocals are the central focus of everything but "Pick Up the Pieces." "Nothing You Can Do" and "Just Wanna Love You Tonight" dip into romantic R&B love balladry, while "Keepin' It To Myself" finds the boys mining the contemporaneous Al Green/Willie Mitchell arrangement style. Conversant in all the variants of mid-'70s funk and R&B, the Average White Band succesfully married pop smarts with dance-floor groove power.
Recorded at Atlantic Recording Studios, New York, New York and Criteria Sound Studios, Miami, Florida. Originally released on Atlantic (7308). Includes liner notes by A. Scott Galloway.
Engineers include: Gene Paul, Ron Albert, Howard Albert.
Average White Band: Hamish Stuart, Alan Gorrie (vocals, guitar, bass); Onnie McIntyre (guitar, background vocals); Roger Ball (alto & baritone saxophones, keyboards); Malcolm "Molly" Duncan (tenor saxophone); Robbie McIntosh, Steve Ferrone (drums, percussion).
Additional personnel: Jim Mullen (guitar); Herbie Mann (flute); Joe Farrell, Sonny Fortune, David Newman (alto saxophone); Michael Brecker, Dick Morrisey (tenor saxophone); Jaroslav Jakubovic (baritone saxophone); Randy Brecker, Mel Davis, Marvin Stamm, Don Ellis, Gilman Rathel, Lew Soloff (trumpet); Alan Kaplan, Barry Rodgers (trombone); Richard Tee (electric piano); Ken Bichel (Mellotron); Ralph MacDonald (congas, percussion); Raphael Cruz, Sammy Figueroa (percussion).
Uncut (1/04, p.124) - 4 stars out of 5 - "AWB had sufficient grit to appease the purists, but enough melodic and rhythmic hooks for it to reach No 1 in America." Hide Description Awb Music | Category | Rock Albums, R&B CDs, Rap, Soul/R&B, Rock/Pop, Funk | | Label | Rhino | | Orig Year | 1974 | | All Time Sales Rank | 5718  | | CD Universe Part number | 1117701 | | Catalog number | 71588 | | Discs | 1 | | Release Date | Jun 20, 1995 | | Studio/Live | Mixed | | Mono/Stereo | Stereo | | Producer | Arif Mardin | | Personnel | Steve Ferrone - drums, percussion Robbie McIntosh Hamish Stuart Onnie McIntyre - guitar, background vocals Alan Gorrie - vocals, guitar, bass Roger Ball - alto & baritone saxophones, keyboards Malcolm "Molly" Duncan - tenor saxophone
Also: Michael Brecker, Randy Brecker, Ralph MacDonald, Richard Tee, Joe Farrell, Lew Soloff, Marvin Stamm, Barry Rogers, Sammy Figueroa, Herbie Mann, Sonny Fortune, Don Ellis, Jim Mullen, Alan Kaplan, Ken Bichel, Gilman Rathel, Jaroslav Jakubovic, Raphael Cruz, Mel Davis, Dick Morrisey, David "Fathead" Newman, David "Fathead" Newman |
Purchase Awb CD To buy, Click on price to add to cart | Joe Simon Get Down CD (1975) (Import) United Kingdom
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$19.69 Ace.
| | Gino Vannelli Storm At Sunup CD (1990)
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$6.69 Track Listing of songs: Storm at Sunup; Love Me Now; Mama Coco; Father and Son; Where Am I Going; Keep on Walking; Love Is a Night; Gettin' High;
| | Gino Vannelli Pauper In Paradise CD (1990)
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$7.55 Track Listing of songs: Mardi Gras; Valleys of Valhalla; Surest Things Can Change, The; One Night With You; Song and Dance, A; Black and Blue; Pauper in Paradise, A; 2nd Movement; 3rd Movement; 4th Movement;
| | Average White Band Cut The Cake CD (1975)
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$8.65 Originally released on Atlantic (18140). Includes liner notes by A. Scott Galloway.
Much is made of the fact that the members of the Average White Band were pale-faced Scots who somehow managed to be funky as all get-out, but the truth is that AWB was simply one of the tightest R&B/funk combos of the 1970s, regardless of ethnicity and nationality. The band's fourth album continues the momentum of its predecessors by offering more lock-step grooves and slippery bass lines peppered with clarion horns and memorable vocal refrains. The title track, an R&B hit in 1975, is a case in point.
CUT THE CAKE also contains smooth mid-tempo groovers ("School Boy Crush"), and quiet storm balladry ("Cloudy" and a cover of "If I Ever Lose This Heaven"), sounding sharp and sassy in all styles. Despite the tragic death of their original drummer a year before, AWB sound both focused and invigorated here, so that CUT THE CAKE still delivers the funk, and ends up ranking among the band's better albums.
This is part of Rhino's Atlantic & Atco Re-Masters series.
Average White Band: Hamish Stuart, Alan Gorrie (vocals, guitar, bass); Onnie McIntyre (guitar); Malcolm "Molly" Duncan (flute, tenor saxophone); Roger Ball (alto & baritone saxophones, keyboards, synthesizer); Stephen Ferrone (drums, percussion).
Additonal personnel: Ray Barretto (percussion).
| | Average White Band Soul Searching CD (1976)
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$8.65 Recorded at Atlantic Studios, New York, New York from January to March 1976. Originally released on Atlantic (18179). Includes liner notes by A. Scott Galloway.
Average White Band: Alan Gorrie, Hamish Stuart (vocals, guitar, bass); Onnie McIntyre (guitar); Roger Ball (alto saxophone, keyboards); Malcolm Duncan (tenor saxophone); Steve Ferrone (drums, percussion).
Additional personnel: Jim Mullen (guitar); Seymour Barab, Jesse Levy, Alan Schulman (cello); Michael Brecker (tenor saxophone); Ronnie Cuber (baritone saxophone); Randy Brecker, Marvin Stamm (trumpet); Barry Rogers (trombone); Ken Bichel (synthesizer); Carlos Martin (percussion); Eddie Brigati, Dave Brigati (background vocals).
| | Jay-Z Volume 2: Hard Knock Life CD (1998)
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$11.89 VOL. 2 HARD KNOCK LIFE won the 1999 Grammy Award for Best Rap Album.
"Hard Knock Life" was nominated for a 1999 Grammy for Best Rap Solo Performance. "Money Ain't A Thang" was nominated for a 1999 Grammy for Best Rap Performance By A Duo Or Group.
Jay-Z is a rapper's rapper. He is the lyricist all other MCs want to be, and he has the beats over which every other MC wants to rhyme. His third album, VOL. 2 HARD KNOCK LIFE, further verifies Jay-Z's #1 status. Throughout his musical career, Jay-Z has shown that he has the skills to pay more than just the bills. Experimenting like few other rap artists have, Jay-Z uses the Broadway musical Annie's "Hard Knock Life" for his title track and first single. With its hardcore production, "Money, Cash, Hoes" allows Jay-Z to demonstrate his lyrical skill alongside DMX. "Paper Chase" features Foxy Brown and diversifies VOL. 2 with its Southern Timbaland-produced feel.
Engineers include: Eddie Sancho, Paul Falcon, Joe Quinde.
Personnel includes: Jay-Z (rap vocals); Wais, Half Dead, Big Jaz, Amil, Liz (vocals); Steven Jordan, Lil' Rob (various instruments); Jake Carter, Mike (guitar); Kid Capri (programming); Memphis Bleek, Da Ranjahz, DMX, Too Short, Ja Rule, Amil, Foxy Brown, Jermaine Dupri, The Lox, Beenie Siegel, Sauce Money.
Producers include: Premier, Mark 45, Swizz Beats, Steven Jordan, Timbaland.
| | Various Artists Swingdance Vol. 3 CD (1999) (Import) United Kingdom
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$16.55 third and last volume in series of killer diller swingdance music contains a fabulous selection of 22 songs with excellent sound quality
Contains 22 tracks.
| | Various Artists Trip In Trance 4 CD (2005)
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$14.15 This is a continuous in-the-mix CD compiled and mixed by Rank 1.
Japanese only release for this amazing US nu-soul artist who scored a hit single 'Revival' back in the early 90's. Martine Girault is in the same vein as Mondo Grosso, Monday Michiru, Omar and the like. The album features 12 tracks all produced by Ray Hayden who like the previously mentioned artists has also produced albums for DJ Krush, Incognito and Swing Out Sister. A beautifully summery soul album, for the R& B fan with discerning tastes. Features the single 'If I Had A Dime (w/ Swing Out Sister)'. 1997 Victor/Japan release.
DJ: Rank 1.
| | Various Artists Explosive Dance Party CDs (2002) (Import)
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| | Deep Dish Toronto: The Afterclub Mix By Dubfire CD (2003)
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$12.35 This is a continuous in-the-mix CD compiled and mixed by DJ Dossier.
Limited edition Afterclub CD from Dubfire is a bonus to their main Toronto mix double CD set and give the Deep Dish duo (Sharam being the other half) room to take a more personal approach. Wide-ranging, yet cohesive, they're individual halves of the Deep Dish sound - the music both past and present that makes up their musical whole. 13 tracks. Global Underground. 2003.
| | Three Dog Night Harmony CD (1971)
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$6.59 Foremost among these are a sweetly soulful version of Stevie Wonder's "Never Dreamed You'd Leave Me in Summer," and a rave-up on Moby Grape's rocker "Murder in My Heart For the Judge." Of the originals, the quirky "My Impersonal Life" is an oddball gem that sounds oddly like early Chicago, and the closing "Intro-Poem: Mistakes and Illusions" sounds disturbingly like the Moody Blues, complete with portentous narration.
One of fans' favorite Three Dog Night albums, HARMONY contains two of the group's biggest hits, "Never Been to Spain"--their second hit written by Hoyt Axton, after "Joy to the World"--and the gently swinging "Old-Fashioned Love Song." Unlike some Three Dog Night albums, however, HARMONY has album tracks that actually eclipse the hit singles.
Three Dog Night: Chuck Negron, Danny Hutton, Cory Wells (vocals); Jimmy Greenspoon (organ).
| | Linda Clifford Runaway Love CD (1999)
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$6.59 Track Listing of songs: Runaway Love; Bridge Over Trouble Water; I Just Wanna Wanna; I Had a Talk With My Man; Love's Sweet Sensation; Don't Give It Up; From Now On; Shoot Your Best Shot; If My Friends Could See Me Now; Between You Baby and Me -, with Curtis Mayfield);
| | Gheorghe Zamfir CD (2006) (Import)
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$11.79 Track Listing of songs: Doina ca la Visina; Busuioc, floare catata; Frunza verde ca bobu'; Primavara, mama noastra; Vino bade; Marie, Marie; Doina de l'amour; De-ar fi dorul ca si-o floare; Frumos, bade, trandafirul; Doina sperantei; Doina de jale; Hommage A Mon Maitre Fanica Luca; La Ruga La Chisoda; A La Fete En Mountene; O Quel Beau Bouquet De Fleurs; Mindra floare-I Norocu; Promenada En Oltenie Avec Marin Chisar; Suite De Timisoara; Dotule Copil Pribeag; Calusul;
| | ZZ Top Gimme All Your Top CD (2007)
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$15.15 Features musicians from bands like Iron Maiden, Black Sabbath, UFO, Foreigner, Rainbow, Uriah Heep, Bad Company, Whitesnake, Fastwayetc.
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Awb Music Review Average Rating: (4.5 out of 5 stars)   Not So Average Had the Tape,I even seen them for free/with Rare Earth. There are some nice tracks on this.You will want to turn it up and just relax and listen/Then again you might want to grab your instrument. BUY IT NOW Submitted by pil215 (Princeton N.C) Was This Review Helpful? Yes No
GREAT BUY MY FAVORITE AWB CD OF ALL TIME. THESE ARE THE ORIGINAL AWB MEMBERS AND THEIR FIRST CD. I FIRST BOUGHT IT ON CASSETE OVER 30 YRS AGO. IT IS VERY HARD TO FIND. I'M THINKING OF BUYING ANOTHER ONE JUST FOR MY LIBRARY. THIS IS THE CD THAT ROBBIE MCINTOSH ORIGINAL DRUMMER FOR AWB PLAYED IN BEFORE HIS TRAGIC DEATH. GREAT BUY. IF YOU LIKE AWB THIS IS ONE OF THEIRS YOU MUST HAVE. Submitted by REC349 (SPFLD MA) Was This Review Helpful? Yes No
Average White Band: You Blow My Mind, Band!!!! Average White Band. I am a loyal fan of yours. You blow my mind. I can not believe that you play the instruments like a black jazz band. This is very good to me because your music is very good. Music will last for forever and forever. Average White Band. I love you for forever. Where are the concert dates to this band. This is an album for any Average White Band fan. Submitted by jejr9 (San Bernardino) Was This Review Helpful? Yes No
31 Years and still going strong The first time I heard this album I was at Bert Murray's apartment off campus at LSU smoking an excellent bong of Columbian Redbud. It was 1974 and I was a smiling stoner grooving on what I thought was an outstanding new black band. Bert told me they were white--like real Scottish white, which REALLY blew me away-- and showed me the album cover. Thus was born my unending love of AWB. To this day their first album is in my top 5 to listen to, along with Dark Side of the Moon, and others, and can get my aging body grooving and moving any time I put it on. A true masterpiece Submitted by infauxman (Lafayette, LA) Was This Review Helpful? Yes No
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