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Soul Searching

The difference in quality between AWB's excellent first Atlantic album, which boasted almost uniformly strong tunes, and the slick filler that passes for songs on Cut the Cake, their last record, and Soul Searching, their new one, is dismaying. Like Cut the Cake, Soul Searching is competently...

1976 RS: Not Rated

Cut The Cake

1975

AWB

1974

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The Average White Band's derivative but convincing funk crossed the Atlantic and the color line, heralding the arrival of disco in the mid-'70s. Each of the members had been active in various English and Scottish bands before Alan Gorrie founded the group. Robbie McIntosh had been with Brian Auger's Oblivion Express; Roger Ball and Malcolm Duncan had been members of the Dundee Horns. After opening...

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