Black Beauty is a Rock album by Love, originally released in 1973. On Gatefold: 7 pressings tracked.
About
For years, Love's powerful lost album from 1973—recorded by an all-black lineup of the band that frontman Arthur Lee assembled—circulated only on poor-sounding bootlegs. As a result, the complex psychedelic-funk edges of the Hendrix-like “Midnight Sun” and Lee's sweet, soulful vocals on “Can’t Find It” were blunted until this proper release. It's loud. It's funky. And when Melvan Whittington’s riveting lead guitar bleeds into Lee’s frustration over police violence on the glam rock-styled “Lonely Pigs,” it's moving. Times got hard; Lee kicked back harder.
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Tracklist
- 1Young & Abel (Good & Evil)3:24
- 2Midnight Sun3:33
- 3Can't Find It3:46
- 4Walk Right In3:23
- 5Skid2:52
- 6Beep Beep2:14
- 7Stay Away2:47
- 8Lonely Pigs4:25
- 9See Myself in You3:03
- 10Product of the Times4:11
- 11Thomasine & Bushrod Main Title (Bonus Track)2:26
- 12Arthur Lee Interview Stephen Rosen 1974 (Bonus Track)22:16
- 13Every Time I Look up I'm Down (Live) [Bonus Track]3:32
- 14Nothing (Live) [Bonus Track]3:06
- 15L.a. Blues (Live 1996) [Bonus Track]3:02
Sound DNA
- Rock
- Psych Rock
- warm
- soulful
- psychedelic
Credits
The people behind it.
Performers
- Arthur LeeGUITAR, KEYBOARDS, VOCALS GUITAR, VOCALS, HARPSICHORD
- Carl McKnightGUEST , STEEL DRUMS STEEL DRUMS
- Craig TarwaterGUEST , GUITAR GUITAR
- Don PoncherGUEST , DRUMS DRUMS
- Frank FayadGUEST , BASS BASS
- Joe BlockerDRUMS, PERCUSSION, VOCALS DRUMS, VOCALS
- Melvan WhittingtonGUITAR, HARPSICHORD GUITAR, KEYBOARDS
- Robert RozelleBASS
- Byron ReynoldsDRUMS
- Riley RacerSTEEL GUITAR
- Ventilator
Rare pressing on Gatefold · 7 pressings tracked on Gatefold
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