PAST PRINT
As was written in the Bill Withers feature in the last issue of
B&S, there have been a handful of new talents in the 70's who are
now beginning to have a serious influence on the path of our music for
this decade.
Bill is one of them; Roberta Flack is another,
finally achieving her goal with the chart topping 'The First Time Ever
I Saw Your Face' and album from whence it came, First Take, currently among the Top 10 albums in the pop charts in the States for a second time.
How did you pick this time to re-emerge?
I wanted to have
a little break away from away it. I still continued writing and putting
songs on tape I never really stopped doing that, I never put out a
record, I had a chance to get away from it for a bit, then I felt much
better about the idea of doing it, and then it was a question of
finding someone I could work with.
This is a pretty straight transcript of what the late Barry Beckett said to me in his new Warner Brothers office in Nashville in September 1985. It was for my book Say It One Time for the Brokenhearted, about southern or "country" soul...
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Though the Watts 103rd St. Band are not yet a big act in Britain, they have established themselves as one of the top attractions in their homeland.
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"I'll tell you a good one, a realy good one," says Jerry Miller, long-time guitarist with Moby Grape, warming to the subject of his former bandmate Skip Spence.
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