Average White Band

AWB has been hailed as the blackest-sounding white group since the Stones, but that's true
only in a very technical sense. This Scottish band is comfortable with only the most narrow
range of the music, chiefly with the complex instrumental arrangements of Gamble and
Huff's Philadelphia sound. But AWB plays with learned awareness rather than with the fire
of the Philly house band, MFSB (whose recent album, Universal Love, provides e... More >

Have they lost their impassioned identification with their mastery of a nonwhite form? Has success (death?) (maybe just familiarity?) robbed them of their magic. Or have they just run out of songs? (Grade: C+)