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Warmer Communications / Benny & Us [Import, Original recording remastered]

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The small Scottish city of Dundee is not the kind of place to have any obvious connection with funk; damp and drizzly, conservative, and overwhelmingly white, the only way Dundee might funk is if it smells bad. But anyone can have the (musical) funk, and the Scotsmen who met at college in Dundee and formed Average White Band were not held back by their origins: they made international waves in the… Read more in Amazon's Average White Band Store

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  • Audio CD (May 2, 2005)
  • Number of Discs: 2
  • Format: Import, Original recording remastered
  • Label: Sony Bmg Europe
  • ASIN: B0007M8HT2
  • Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #238,411 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Disc: 1
1. Your Love Is a Miracle
2. Same Feeling, Different Song
3. Daddy's All Gone
4. Big City Lights
5. She's a Dream
6. Warmer Communications
7. The Price of a Dream
8. Sweet and Sour
9. One Look over My Shoulder (Is This Really Goodbye?)
Disc: 2
1. Get It Up for Love
2. Fool for You Anyway
3. A Star in the Ghetoo
4. The Message
5. What Is Soul
6. Someday We'll All Be Free
7. Imagine
8. Keepin' It to Myself

 

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5.0 out of 5 stars Great, January 30, 2011
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What ealse can you say. AWB does it again. Mature Funk at its best. Not the best work, but classic anyway you shape it.
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4.0 out of 5 stars AWB'S ONE TWO PUNCH, November 27, 2009
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Hard to beat, getting two for the price of one, but in this case, you're getting three. Don't forget Ben E King.
"Warmer Communication" it might take a bit listening on this AWB classic. First you gotta get past "one look over your shoulder" at least that's what happen to me. I played it too death. "your love is a miracle", "daddys all gone" and "same felling different song" that's that average white band you've learned to love. We're not through yet, now they hook up with RB legend Ben E King. "Benny and Us" Why do I feel it's more like it's Bennys album, and our guys are just singing the background. Oh well, all I know is, it works. "star in the ghetto", that's my repeat mode, love that song, and love the story. Donny Hathaways "someday we'll all be free" that will always be a great song, nobody can mess that song up. I think they probably made the most money off of "get it up for love", good dance tune for that era, and I'm guess that's pretty much what sold that album. Maybe not the best stuff they've done, but the thing about "average white band" fans, we don't want to turn our heads...we think we might miss something.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Sweet soul music and funk, November 26, 2008
This review is from: Warmer Communications / Benny & Us (Audio CD)
When R & B went the route of souless over-production and synthesizers along came a bunch of white guys from Scotland who revered the masters of this genre and wrote and performed some of the greatest soul music of the '70s and '80's. This 2 CD compilation contains 2 of their best efforts. Despite the absence of hit singles the music here is top-notch. Warmer Communications is one of their last Atlantic albums and contains such classics as "Your Love Is A Miracle" - a slow funk burner with killer wah-wah bass solo and their trademark horns. Hamish Stuart shines on "She Was a Dream" a latin tinged homage to obessesive love. There's also an extra live "marathon" treatment of their hit "Pick Up the Pieces" with a killer arrangement by Arif Mardin and solos by what I believe to be the giants of jazz in attendance at the Montreux Jazz Fest that year. The 2nd disc contains their partnership with Ben E. King which is a wonderful testament to how in tune these guys were with King's musical background and style. Highlights include soulful treatment of John Lennon's "Imagine" and Donny Hathaway's "Someday We'll All be Free" an overlooked positive but not preachy, civil rights anthem. AWB are truly masters of this music.
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