Tuesday, April 7, 2009

Kompis! Kompis! crate findings in Santiago de Chile, part 8

The Isley Brother's "Work to do" is one of my all time favourite folk-soul-jams. Digging around in el barrio San Diego yesterday I found a copy with a useful cover of this tune performed by the Scottish(!?) band Average White Band - the group many seem to love to hate, for some reason... Well, I happen to like AWB's version of "Work to do", mainly because of its strong production that is more bumpy and danceable than the original version. The bass-action of founding member Alan Gorrie is the key here, and check also the beautiful guitar solo in the middle! And as usual with AWB, there's a horn section with a whole lot of testosterone - maybe to much for some orthodox funk heads out there - but hell, it works good for me!

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