AWB

For a bunch of Scottish guys the Average White Band had serious soul. The white album from 1974 was one of the finest in the genre: classic songs, brilliantly performed and beautifully produced by the great Arif Mardin. It's interesting too that a band with two outstanding singers had its biggest hit with an instrumental - Pick Up The Pieces.

I recorded AWB for broadcast at the Glasgow Apollo. Multi-tracked then mixed later, I would also have made a ¼" back-up at the gig and somehow that tape found its way into my collection. These three songs are from it. The mix is rough and the tape a bit worse for wear having lived in a box for the last thirty years but the vibe is as fresh and strong as it was on that summer night back in 1982.

performed: The Average White Band

produced for radio: CS (1982)