Earth Wind & Fire – Last Days and Time

I was inspired to play some Earth Wind & Fire this morning thanks to Kevin Bacon (odd link I know. Insert six degrees of Kevin Bacon joke here). I was watching the ABC series Take 5 where they interview various people about music and there is a theme each week. He started off with an Earth Wind and Fire track. I had no idea he was such an avid music lover, player and incredibly down to earth human. He has a huge social media presence I seemed to have missed – playing a record each Monday and talking about it, and then also playing guitar covers to his goats. It’s some of the most wholesome content on the internet.

It wasn’t until my early 20’s I realised I had a huge gap in my soul/funk/RnB knowledge that wasn’t pop stuff I’d seen on weekend music clip shows. I was quite ashamed of this at the time. My parents mainly listened to 60’s & 70s pop/rock/folk with my dad dabbling in a bit of soul. This is probably in part the 80’s/90’s Australian suburbs experience - the awkward whiteness of it all. I find myself thinking about this quite a bit lately since posting about my records on here.

I first got into this album by a DJ I use to listen to on NTS Nabihah Iqbal. She’d play a mix of styles similar to my sets for our radio show. One of her sets she opened with Power, the last track on the first side of this. Brilliant track beginning with a swirling sound of the Kalimba that continues to build into this huge jazz funk instrumental.

This album gets mixed reviews on the “big” music sites but is one of my favourites.

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