AWB (album)

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Released August 1974 Length 40:24 Producer Arif Mardin		Genre Funk, soul Label Atlantic
Recorded Atlantic Recording Studios, NYC and Criteria Sound Studios, Miami

AWB is the second studio album by the Scottish funk and soul band Average White Band, released in August 1974.

AWB topped Billboard's Pop Albums and Black Albums charts. Its million-selling single "Pick Up the Pieces" knocked Linda Ronstadt's classic "You're No Good" out of #1 on Billboard's Hot 100.

A 2004 expanded re-issue from Sony/Columbia in the UK includes a bonus CD with several demo session recordings made before the group joined Atlantic Records – taken from the 1973 so-called "Clover Sessions."

Track listing

Side one

"You Got It" (Roger Ball, Hamish Stuart, Alan Gorrie) – 3:38
"Got the Love" (Stuart, Ball, Robbie McIntosh) – 3:52
"Pick Up the Pieces" (Average White Band) – 3:58
"Person to Person" (Average White Band) – 3:38
"Work to Do" (O'Kelly Isley, Ronald Isley, Rudolph Isley) – 4:21

Side two

"Nothing You Can Do" (Gorrie, Stuart, Ball) – 4:06
"Just Wanna Love You Tonight" (Ball, Gorrie) – 3:57
"Keepin' It to Myself" (Gorrie) – 3:52
"I Just Can't Give You Up" (Stuart) – 3:24
"There's Always Someone Waiting" (Gorrie) – 5:38

All songs arranged by Average White Band. All horn parts arranged by Roger Ball.

Bonus track on 1995 Rhino re-issue (Rhino 71588)

11. "Pick Up the Pieces" – 21:40 (from The Atlantic Family Live at Montreux)

Expanded 2CD re-issue (2004)

Disc one

Original release

Disc two

"Person to Person"
"There's Always Someone Waiting"
"McEwan's Export"
"Got the Love"
"Work to Do"
"Just Want to Love You Tonight"
"Pick Up the Pieces"
"I Just Can't Give You Up"
"How Sweet Can You Get (Mark 1)"

Bonus tracks on 2005 Columbia-Europe re-issue (Columbia 520204)

11. "How Sweet Can You Get (Mark 1)"12. "McEwan's Export"

Average White Band

Alan Gorrie – lead vocals (on "Keepin' It To Myself" and "There's Always Someone Waiting"), co-lead vocals (on "You Got It", "Work To Do", "Nothing You Can Do", and "Just Wanna Love You Tonight"), background vocals, bass, guitar (on "You Got It")

Hamish Stuart – lead vocals (on "Got The Love", "Person To Person", and "I Just Can't Give You Up"), co-lead vocals (on "You Got It", "Work To Do", "Nothing You Can Do", and "Just Wanna Love You Tonight"), background vocals, lead guitar, bass (on "You Got It")

Roger Ball – keyboards, alto & baritone saxophones

Molly Duncan – tenor saxophone

Onnie McIntyre – background vocals, guitar, guitar solo on "Work To Do"

Robbie McIntosh – drums, percussion