Dinosaur Tracks (Limited)
£10.99
Description:
One of the Bay Area’s most respected bands, Tower Of Power has been serving up formidable slabs of Latin-tinged funk for more than a quarter century. The interracial group racked up a number of hits for Warner Bros. in the ‘70s and ‘80s and also earned an enviable reputation as session players. There’s a reason artists as diverse as Elton John, Santana, Huey Lewis, and many more called upon the Tower Of Power horns to back them up: these guys are good.
Tower Of Power’s Dinosaur Tracks is a complete, fully-loaded, totally groove-filled previously unreleased studio album from 1983. Soulful ballads. Up-tempo swingfests. And a couple disco-tinged dance numbers. All with that unique trademarked sound of the mighty Tower Of Power horn section. While one of these tracks snuck out awhile back to be used on a European -then later US- release and another was later re-recorded for a live album, this is the very first time anywhere this entire studio album, just as Tower Of Power originally intended it to be, has appeared anywhere. This 14 track compact disc also has a nifty booklet with a history of the creation of this album, as well as a track-by-track commentary from TOP leader Emilio Castillo.
Mastered from the original tapes under Tower Of Power's careful supervision, Dinosaur Tracks is one of those rare discoveries: a finished studio album from an outstanding band which, for a series of reasons almost amusing in retrospect, sat more-or-less unheard of and forgotten in a vault for over seventeen years. Until now, that is.