The Essential Selection (Remastered) Average White Band

• 1 Pick Up The Pieces 03:54
• 2 Cut the Cake 04:05
• 3 School Boy Crush 05:01
• 4 Get It up for Love (with Ben E. King) 04:35
• 5 Walk on By 03:59
• 6 For You, For Love 03:53
• 7 Soul Searching 03:16
• 8 Atlantic Avenue 03:16
• 9 Kiss Me 03:49
• 10 Sweet & Sour 04:51
• 11 You Got It 03:29
• 12 Shine 03:56
• 13 Whatcha' Gonna Do for Me 04:09
• 14 If I Ever Lose This Heaven 04:59
• 15 A Star in the Ghetto (with Ben E. King) 06:49
• 16 A Love of Your Own ("Volume Viii" Edit) 04:06
• 17 Let's Go Round Again (Dimitri from Paris Remix) 09:02
• 18 When Will You Be Mine 04:25
• 19 Work to Do 04:20
• 20 Queen of My Soul ("Volume Viii" Edit) 04:36
• 21 Put It Where You Want 05:15
• 22 I'm the One 04:20
• 23 Person to Person 03:36
• 24 Stop the Rain 04:31
• 25 Your Love Is a Miracle 06:08
• 26 The Jugglers 04:51
• 27 Got the Love 03:48
• 28 Love Won't Get in the Way 05:08
• 29 Keepin' It to Myself (with Ben E. King) 04:29
• 30 Ace of Hearts 03:51
• 31 Miss Sun 04:15
• 32 Love's a Heartache 04:47
• 33 I'm Gonna Make You Love Me (Live) 05:53
• 34 Let's Go Round Again 04:56
• Total Runtime 02:36:18

Info for The Essential Selection (Remastered)

Widely and rightly regarded as one of the best ever soul and funk bands, the now legendary Average White Band tore-up the rule book and conquered the US, UK & International charts with a series of soul and disco hits between 1974 and 1980.

Although probably best known for their global hit, the US #1 signature single ‘Pick Up The Pieces’, which reached #1 on the US Billboard Hot 100 Chart, this superb collection features 34 classic recordings from ‘Show Your Hand’/’Put It Where You Want It’ (1973) to ‘Cupid’s In Fashion’ (1982).

“The Essential Selection” also includes their other UK and US hits, ‘Cut The Cake’, ‘Queen Of My Soul’, ‘Walk On By’, ‘For You, For Love’, the much sampled ‘School Boy Crush’, ‘When Will You Be Mine’, ‘If I Ever Lose This Heaven’, the track that Chaka Khan demoed for AWB and recorded in 1981 ‘Whatcha’ Gonna Do For Me’ and the floorfiller ‘Let’s Go Round Again’.

“The Essential Selection” collection, features all of the band’s international hits, including collaborations with Ben E. King, album favourites, as well as the 2021 Dimitri From Paris Remix ‘Let’s Go Round Again’.

AWB’s repertoire has been a source of inspiration and influence for many R&B acts and they are one of the most sampled bands in history, remaining relevant today, continuing to reach new generations of younger audiences.

Snoop Dogg, Fatboy Slim, Ice Cube, Puff Daddy, TLC, Rick Ross, will.i.am and Mark Ronson amongst countless others, have all borrowed sections of their grooves.

“The Essential Selection” has been overseen by Alan Gorrie, Hamish Stuart and Onnie McIntyre.

Average White Band

Digitally remastered

Average White Band
are widely regarded as one of the best soul and funk bands in the history of music. Though perhaps best known for their timeless instrumental mega-hit 'Pick Up the Pieces' the band's strength actually lay in their consistently accomplished song-writing, stretching across several gold selling albums and multi- grammy nominations for the legendary Atlantic Records. Somewhat incongruously, given their Scottish roots, the six piece took the influences of their R&B heroes - people like Marvin Gaye, James Brown, Donny Hathaway and others - and developed their own 'authentic' sound which was eagerly adopted by black audiences in the US and elsewhere.

Whilst a good number of cuts - 'Cut The Cake' and 'Let's Go 'Round Again' to name but two - attracted chart action as hit singles, many other album tracks, like 'Schoolboy Crush' and 'Person to Person' became much sampled and turn-tabled 'rare' grooves. Many more tunes, such as 'Cloudy', 'A Love Of Your Own' and 'Nothing You Can Do' - amongst many others- stand alongside some of the finest soul 'album tracks' ever recorded.

The current lineup of the band, with noted US musicians alongside founding members Alan Gorrie and Onnie McIntyre, continues to delight audiences and critics alike in its wide - ranging touring. The musical energy and trademark sound are remarkably true to the original, and with constant revisitations and re-workings of AWB's, and others' classics in the mix, it is no surprise that the Average White Band is now a multi - generational attraction, and a perennial fixture with so many of the top music venues.

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