This week In Soul Artists 48/52
Columbia publish Earth, Wind & Fire’s fifth album : ‘Open Our Eyes’ produced by Maurice White & Charles Stepney (1974)
Earth, Wind & Fire's 'Open Our Eyes' is their fifth studio album produced by Maurice White & Charles Stepney and released on March 25, 1974 b Columbia.
Earth, Wind & Fire release ‘That’s the Way of the World’ featuring ‘Shining Star’ (1975)
Earth, Wind & Fire's 'That's the Way of the World' feat 'Shining Star' is an album co-produced by Maurice White and released on March 15, 1975 by Columbia.
Columbia publish Earth, Wind & Fire’s twelfth album : ‘Powerlight’ featuring ‘Fall in Love with Me’ (1983)
Earth, Wind & Fire's 'Powerlight' is their twelfth studio album produced by Maurice White and released on February 3, 1983 by Columbia.
Columbia publish Earth, Wind & Fire’s eighth album : ‘All n All’ featuring ‘Serpentine Fire’ and ‘Fantasy’ (1977)
Earth, Wind & Fire's 'All n All' feat. 'Serpentine Fire' & 'Fantasy' is their eighth (and most well known) studio album released on November 21, 1977 by Columbia.
Earth, Wind & Fire release their eleventh album : ‘Raise!’ featuring ‘Let’s Groove’ (1981)
Earth, Wind & Fire's 'Raise!' feat. 'Let's Groove' is their eleventh studio album released on November 14, 1981 by CBS Records.
Columbia publish Earth, Wind & Fire’s ‘Gratitude,’ a mostly live album featuring ‘Sing a Song’ (1975)
Earth, Wind & Fire's 'Gratitude' is a double (and three quarter live) album released on November 11, 1975 by Columbia.
Columbia publish Earth, Wind & Fire’s tenth album : ‘Faces’ (1980)
Earth, Wind & Fire's 'Faces' is their tenth studio album released as a double-LP on October 14, 1980 by Arc/Columbia Records.
Sony Legacy publish Earth, Wind & Fire’s twentieth album : ‘Now, Then & Forever’ (2013)
Earth, Wind & Fire's 'Now, Then & Forever' is their twentieth studio album released on September 10, 2013 by Sony Legacy.
Columbia publish Earth, Wind & Fire’s seventh album : ‘Spirit’ featuring ‘Getaway’ and ‘Saturday Nite’ (1976)
Earth, Wind & Fire's 'Spirit' is their seventh studio album released in September 1976 by Columbia Records.
Earth, Wind & Fire release their ninth album : ‘I Am’ featuring ‘Boogie Wonderland’ & ‘After the Love Has Gone’ (1979)
Earth, Wind & Fire's 'I Am' feat. 'Boogie Wonderland' & 'After the Love Has Gone' is their ninth studio album released on June 9, 1979 by Cbs.
Eric Clapton releases his ninth album : ‘Behind the Sun’ featuring Lindsey Buckingham & Phil Collins as guests (1985)
Eric Clapton's 'Behind the Sun' is his ninth album featuring Lindsey Buckingham & Phil Collins as guests and released on March 11, 1985 by Duck / Warner Bros
Gordy publish The Temptations’ album : ‘1990’ (1973)
The Temptations' '1990' is an album (their final written and produced by Norman Whitfield) released on December 7, 1973 by Gordy.
Guitarist Marc Ribot enrols Tom Waits, Meshell Ndegeocello, Steve Earle et al in the resistance. ‘Here comes back the protest song’
Marc Ribot's "Songs of Resistance 1942-2018" is his twenty fourth album recorded with among other guests Tom Waits, Sam Amidon, Steve Earle, Tift Merritt and Meshell Ndegeocello and released on September 14, 2018 by Anti.
(Source Marc Ribot - Songs of Resistance 1942-2018 | Official Site)
> “It’s cool to have professional protest singers and all that, but I wanted to include artists who reached outside the ‘protest’ bubble.” >>>>>
> “Of course, he brings a certain gravitas to everything he does — my Italian friends say he sounds exactly like an old ‘partigiano’ (resistance fighter)!” >>>Paste>>
> “Bella Ciao” is slowed down to a veritable funeral dirge, a wistful reverie for the imploding structure of American democracy >>>
Marc Ribot
…EMI publish D’Angelo’s debut album : ‘Brown Sugar’ featuring ‘Lady’ (1995)
D'Angelo's 'Brown Sugar' is his debut album (that was going to spend 65 weeks on the Billboard 200 chart) released on July 3, 1995 by EMI.
Heads Up publish ‘The Stanley Clarke Band’ recorded with Ruslan Sirota, Ronald Bruner, Jr. and Hiromi (2010)
'The Stanley Clarke Band' is an album recorded with Ruslan Sirota on keyboard, Ronald Bruner, Jr. on drums and Hiromi on piano and released on June 15, 2010 by Heads Up.
Happy Birthday Marc Ribot ‘Ribotic’
Harvey Mason – Chameleon
Track Listing : 1.Black Frost (Bob James, Grover Washington, Jr.) - 06:08 . 2.Montara (Bobby Hutcherson) - 05:31 . 3.If I Ever Lose This Heaven (Pam Sawyer, Leon Ware) - 05:58 . 4.Looking Back (Mark De Clive-Lowe, Paul Jackson, Harvey Mason
>, Sr.) - 01:35 . 5.Before The Dawn (Patrice Rushen) - 06:49 . 6.Studio Life (Hold It One Second) (Harvey Mason>, Sr.) - 01:06 . 7.Places And Spaces (Fonce Mizell, Larry Mizell) - 07:03 . 8.Either Way (Harvey Mason>, Sr.) - 05:19 . 9.Mase’S Theme (Mark De Clive-Lowe, Harvey Mason>, Sr.) - 01:44 . 10.Chameleon> (Herbie Hancock, Paul Jackson, Bennie Maupin, Harvey Mason>, Sr.) - 06:59 >Musicians : Harvey Mason
>, Sr. - Drums . Corey King - Trombone, Vocals On (7)…