Vinyl Wednesday: Earth Wind And Fire - The Need Of Love
31min and 41 seconds of Earth, Wind & Fire's second album (
Wikipedia). These days people call it an EP.. in the past it was a full album. It has to do with the material, vinyl. Theoretically it's possible to put more than 30 minutes on each side but then the sound wll suffer.. back to this album:
It starts with a very eclctic tune, Energy. It starts free jazz and turns into a groove tune.. you can tell it was 1971. Psychodelic, exploring the mind... same time as Funkadelic, but less guitar and lots of horns.. less freaky but not less funky.
They play a very funky version of Donny Hathaway's Everything Is Everything. I just read that Maurice White's younger brother Fred White was Donny Hathaway's drummer...
on 08/11/2017
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