Everybody Loves the Sunshine: 40th Anniversary (Yellow Vinyl)＜限定盤＞

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Personnel: Roy Ayers (vibraphone, vocals, electric piano, Arp synthesizer, Arp string ensemble, percussion), Chicas (vocals), Ronald "Head" Drayton (guitar), Philip Woo (piano, electric piano, Arp synthesizer, string ensemble), John "Shaun" Solomon (bass), Doug Rhodes (drums), Chano O' Ferral (congas, percussion, vocals). All songs written or co-written by Roy Ayers except "Keep On Walking" (Gino Vannelli). Roy Ayers's had long made his shift into R&B/soul by 1976's Everybody Loves the Sunshine. His recordings of this period can be very hit and miss, and in this particular record, you get both. The title track, "Everybody Loves the Sunshine," is a quintessential song from the mid-'70s. While it might not have slammed the charts like Wild Cherry's "Play That Funky Music," it's still a revered classic. It evokes that feeling of sweltering concrete in Brooklyn where the only relief is the local fire hydrant. Entirely sung by a choir repeating the same lines throughout, the rhythm section rolls along with a perfectly looped laid-back groove. It moves along lazily, hypnotically, and sluggishly as the sun slows things down to the right speed and "folks get down in the sunshine." The rest of the album contains Ayers classics such as the burning percussive funk of "It Ain't AYour Sign It's Your Mind," the spacey cosmic soul of "the Third Eye," the bumping rubbery disco in "People and the World," and the two horn-scorched closers "Tongue Power," and "Lonesome Cowboy." [Everybody Loves the Sunshine was re-released on LP in 2016.] ~ Sam Samuelson
エディション : Reissue