🎵 AotW AOTW: Billy Preston - A WHOLE NEW THING (SP-4656)

[LPJim]

Billy Preston
A WHOLE NEW THING
A&M SP-4656

Tracks:

A Whole New Thing 3:35
Disco Dancin' 3:30
Complicated Sayings 2:54
Attitudes (instr.) 2:29
I'm Really Going to Miss You 3:48

Wide Stride (instr.) 3:15
You Got Me Buzzin' 2:42
Sweet Marie 3:40
Happy (instr.) 2:20
Touch Me Love 3:22
You Don't Have to Go 3:00


Produced by Billy Preston and Truman Thomas
Recorded at Kendun Recorders

Billy Preston - vocals, guitar, bass, percussion & vocals

Guitars: Eugene Henderson, Tony Maiden, Michael McGloiry
Bass: Welton Gite, Keni Burke
Keyboards: Kenneth Moore, Truman Thomas
Drums: Manuel Kellough, Ollie E. Brown, Alvin Taylor

Percussion: Bobbye Hall
Trumpets: Angelo Richards, Charles Garnett
Sax: Wynell Montgomery

Backing Vocals: Gloria Jones, Andre Crough, Frankie Spring, Clydie King, Joe Greene.

Reissued on CD in Japan by Phantom Sound & Vision in 2008


JB

 

[Dave]

Moving away from the modest & mild-mannered R&B and soulful pop balladry, Preston reaches out and steps out into yet a current trend: --Disco!...

Hardly anything like "Space Race", but like he said: "Nothing From Nothing Leaves Nothing...", which leaves this outing rather unfocused and unsatisfying...

Better wait for Billy's brief period at Motown... The Syreeta Wright duet, "With You I'm Born Again" was really worth the wait, as well as a throwback to the earlier times...



Dave