Artist: Average White Band Title: The Ultimate Collection Year Of Release: 2003 Label: Sony Music Entertainment UK Genre: R&B Quality: FLAC (tracks+.cue,log) Total Time: 02:38:37 Total Size: 1015 MB

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Their self-effacing name to the contrary, Average White Band was anything but -- one of the few white groups to cross the color line and achieve success and credibility playing funk, with their tight, fiery sound also belying their Scottish heritage, evoking American R&B hotbeds like Detroit, Memphis, and Philadelphia instead. Singer/bassist Alan Gorrie, guitarists Hamish Stuart and Onnie McIntyre, tenor saxophonist Malcolm Duncan, keyboardist/saxophonist Roger Ball, and drummer Robbie McIntosh comprised the original Average White Band lineup. Veterans of numerous Scottish soul and jazz groups, they made their debut in 1973 as the opening act at Eric Clapton's Rainbow Theatre comeback gig, soon issuing their debut LP, Show Your Hand, to little notice. After adopting the abbreviated moniker AWB, a year later the band issued their self-titled sophomore effort, topping the American pop charts with the Arif Mardin-produced instrumental "Pick Up the Pieces." The record's mammoth success was nevertheless tempered by the September 23, 1974 death of McIntosh, who died at a Hollywood party after overdosing on heroin.

Tracklist:

CD 1

1. Pick Up The Pieces
2. Put It Where You Want It
3. The Jugglers
4. Person To Person
5. You Got It
6. Work To Do
7. Keepin' It To Myself
8. Got The Love
9. Cut The Cake
10. Cloudy
11. Schoolboy Crush
12. If I Ever Lose This Heaven
13. This World Has Music
14. Soul Searching
15. Everybody's Darling
16. I'm The One
17. A Love Of Your Own
18. In The Beginning

CD 2

1. Let's Go Round Again
2. Queen Of My Soul
3. The Message
4. One Look Over My Shoulder (Is This Really Goodbye?)
5. Your Love Is A Miracle
6. She's A Dream
7. Atlantic Avenue
8. When Will You Be Mine
9. Love Won't Get In The Way
10. Feel No Fret
11. Walk On By
12. Kiss Me
13. For You, For Love
14. Whatcha' Gonna Do For Me
15. Into The Night
16. Love Your Life
17. Miss Sun

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