AWB (album)

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AWB
Studio album by The Average White Band
Released August 1974
Recorded 1974, Atlantic Recording Studios, NYC and Criteria Sound Studios, Miami
Genre Funk
Length 40:24
Label Atlantic
Producer Arif Mardin
The Average White Band chronology
Show Your Hand
(1973)		 AWB
(1974)		 Cut the Cake
(1975)
alternative cover
Expanded 2CD re-issue cover
Professional ratings
Review scores
Source Rating
Allmusic 4.5/5 stars[1]

AWB is the second studio album by the Scottish funk and soul band Average White Band, released in August 1974 (see 1974 in music). An enormous best-seller, AWB was the Average White Band's breakthrough record, stunning many listeners with its soul and funk coming from a Scottish band.

AWB topped Billboard's Pop Albums and Black Albums charts. Its million-selling single "Pick Up the Pieces" knocked Linda Ronstadt's classic "You're No Good" out of #1 on Billboard's Hot 100.

A 2004 expanded re-issue from Sony/Columbia in the UK includes a bonus CD with several demo session recordings made before the group joined Atlantic Records – taken from the so-called 'clover sessions'[2]

Contents

[edit] Track listing

Side one
  1. "You Got It" (Roger Ball, Alan Gorrie, Hamish Stuart) – 3:36
  2. "Got the Love" (Roger Ball, Robbie McIntosh, Hamish Stuart) – 3:52
  3. "Pick Up the Pieces" (Average White Band, Roger Ball, Hamish Stuart) – 3:59
  4. "Person to Person" (Average White Band, Alan Gorrie, Hamish Stuart) – 3:39
  5. "Work to Do" (O'Kelly Isley, Ronald Isley, Rudolph Isley) – 4:25
Side two
  1. "Nothing You Can Do" (Alan Gorrie, Roger Ball, Hamish Stuart) – 4:08
  2. "Just Wanna Love You Tonight" (Roger Ball, Alan Gorrie) – 3:58
  3. "Keepin' It to Myself" (Alan Gorrie) – 4:01
  4. "I Just Can't Give You Up" (Hamish Stuart) – 3:30
  5. "There's Always Someone Waiting" (Alan Gorrie) – 5:35
Bonus track on 1995 Rhino re-issue (Rhino 71588)
11. "Pick Up the Pieces" – 21:40 (from The Atlantic Family Live at Montreux)[3]
Bonus tracks on 2005 Columbia-Europe re-issue (Columbia 520204)
11. "How Sweet Can You Get (Mark 1)"
12. "McEwan's Export"[4]

[edit] Expanded 2CD re-issue (2004)

Disc one

Original release

Disc two
  1. "Person to Person"
  2. "There's Always Someone Waiting"
  3. "McEwan's Export"
  4. "Got the Love"
  5. "Work to Do"
  6. "Just Want to Love You Tonight"
  7. "Pick Up the Pieces"
  8. "I Just Can't Give You Up"
  9. "How Sweet Can You Get Mark1"

[edit] Personnel

[edit] The Band

[edit] Additional musicians

[edit] Other musicians

(Live at Montreux bonus track)

[edit] Other credits

  • Gene Paul - engineer (NYC)
  • Lewis Hahn - engineer (NYC)
  • Karl Richardson - engineer (Miami)
  • Steve Klein - engineer (Miami)
  • Ron Albert - engineer (Miami)
  • Howard Albert - engineer (Miami)
  • Arif Mardin - producer

[edit] Chart positions

Billboard Music Charts (North America)

[edit] Album

Year Chart Position
1975 Billboard 200 1

[edit] Singles

Year Single Chart Position
1974 "Pick Up The Pieces" Disco Singles 10
1974 "Work To Do" 10
1975 "Pick Up The Pieces" Pop Singles 1
1975 "Pick Up The Pieces" Black Singles 5
Preceded by
Heart Like a Wheel by Linda Ronstadt		 Billboard 200 number-one album
February 22–28, 1975		 Succeeded by
Blood on the Tracks by Bob Dylan

[edit] See also

[edit] References

  1. ^ Allmusic review
  2. ^ 2CD expanded re-issue listing at amazon.uk
  3. ^ Rhino.com
  4. ^ swapacd.com link
  5. ^ discography at www.averagewhiteband.com
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