Wednesday, September 4, 2024
SLAVE Featuring Steve Arrington - THE DEFINITIVE COLLECTION 2CD 06
Well the compilation below featuring the awesome song they do, 'Slide" had me confused with the song 'Glide' by Pleasure which is similar so had to pull this out again from my CD's to lock it into my head. Same thing when I bought this in 2006 and hadn't listened to it much since then so had forgot. Well the band features the nephew from another Ohio band with the uncle--the Ohio Players. Here is the skinny on it from Discogs: The group was formed in Ohio by New Jersey native horn player/songwriter/producer Steve Washington (funk obviously runs in the blood - Washington's uncle was Ralph 'Pee Wee' Middlebrook of the famed Ohio Players). Slave performed edgy funk grooves that rival (or even overwhelm) what is considered 'hard' street music today. By the time the Cotillion/Atlantic album "Stone Jam", originally release in September 1980, came out, Steve Washington had departed the group, with Curt Jones and Starleana Young, to form another band, Aurra. Not long afterward, Steve Arrington (drummer and vocalist) also departed to undertake a solo career that produced important funk classics such as "Way Out" and "Nobody Can Be You But You".
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Thank you for this one.
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