Average White Band Essentials

Average White Band Essentials

Despite their handle, this Scottish ensemble were anything but average, delivering the kind of slick grooves that would come to define the sound of ‘70s funk. The ubiquitous “Pick Up the Pieces” swings and peacocks around with its immediately memorable horn line, while “Person to Person” goes for a slow-grinding strut, putting Hamish Stuart's wailing falsetto front and centre. Even when they were reworking others' songs, AWB injected a bottom-heavy swing into the material, as on their ecstatic version of The Isley Brothers' “Work to Do” or their sultry take on Ned Doheny's sad-eyed “A Love of Your Own”.

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