Cut The Cake (CD)

One of the most influential and highly regarded funk groups of the 1970s, the Average White Band was formed by a bunch of R&B enthusiasts from Scotland. Their 1974 album AWB featured their signature song--the slinky, horn-driven instrumental "Pick up the Pieces," which shot to Number One and became a '70s radio staple. The group was inactive for most of the '80s, but reunited in 1989, recording and touring extensively.

• Category:  Music  »  R&B  »  Funk
• Format: CD   Learn more about the CD format using Tower WIKI.
• Release Date: July 20, 1993
• Label: Rhino Records (USA)
• UPC: 081227127121
• WAPI (Tower ID): 106727258
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• Tower.com Sales Rank: #66595 in Music (See Top 100 Music Bestsellers)
• #3439 in R&B (See Top 100 R&B Bestsellers)
• #195 in Funk (See Top 100 Funk Bestsellers)

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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).

Originally released on Atlantic (18140). Includes liner notes by A. Scott Galloway.

This is part of Rhino's Atlantic & Atco Re-Masters series.

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.

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