Betty Davis
Betty Davis (LP, Bottle Clear Vinyl Edition)
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Bottle Clear Vinyl Edition. Betty Davis was a musical maverick with vision. Image, substance, sex, and grit combined with a badass band that could deliver the funk bed backbone to the sultry music between the sheets. After cutting two notorious discs for the Just Sunshine label (Betty Davis, and They Say I’m Different), and Nasty Gal for Island Records, Davis went to work on her most personal and expressive record yet. After capturing 10 hard-hitting tracks in 1976 at the remote Studio In The Country (Louisiana), a creative difference with her then label caused the platter to be unexpectedly shelved. Davis would cut one final album and soon retreat from the music business, completely disappearing from the public eye.
Is It Love Or Desire is a little-known gem in the Davis catalog. Mastered from the original tapes, and untouched for over 30 years, this release features detailed liner notes, the originally intended artwork housed in a lavishly packaged digipak, rare photos, archival material, and recent interviews with Davis and her skin-tight band Funk House.
Never bootlegged, never released, never heard until now, the secret story of this lost album will finally enter the history books and cement this bold soul sister's contributions to music and popular culture. It's time to get down…
Long live Betty Davis!
- Betty’s previously unreleased 1976 album!
- LP available on Standard Black Wax or Special Gold Color Edition or Limited Color Vinyl (Silver Metallic)
- Expanded vinyl edition featuring gatefold jacket and booklet including rare photos and lyrics
- Vinyl plated at RTI
- CD housed in a digipak and featuring expanded booklet
| A1 | If I'm In Luck I Might Get Picked Up | ||
| A2 | Walkin Up The Road | ||
| A3 | Anti Love Song | ||
| A4 | Your Man My Man | ||
| B1 | Ooh Yea | ||
| B2 | Steppin In Her I. Miller Shoes | ||
| B3 | Game Is My Middle Name | ||
| B4 | In The Meantime |
- Jules Broussard
- Baritone Saxophone (A2)
- Doug Rauch
- Bass (A2)
- Larry Graham
- Bass (A1, A3 to B4)
- Victor Pantoja
- Congas (A1)
- Ron Levine
- Design [Original Album Design], Typography [Original Album Type]
- Gregg Errico
- Drums, Producer
- Merl Saunders
- Electric Piano, Clavinet (A3, A4)
- Good Doin Mallory
- Engineer
- Doug Rodrigues
- Guitar (A1, A3, A4, B4)
- Neal Schon
- Guitar (A2), Guitar [Wah, Wah] (A3, B1, B2)
- Danielle Maggio
- Liner Notes
- Oliver Wang
- Liner Notes
- Hershall Kennedy
- Organ, Clavinet (A1, B1, B3, B4), Vocals (A1, B1)
- Mel Dixon
- Photography By [Original Album Cover Photography By]
- Pete Sears
- Piano [Acoustic Piano] (A3)
- Richard Kermode
- Piano [Acoustic Piano], Clavinet (A2, B2)
- Skip Mesquit
- Saxophone (A2)
- Michael Gillette
- Trombone (B1)
- Greg Adams
- Trumpet
- Anita
- Vocals (B2, B3), Voice [2nd Voice] (B3)
- June
- Vocals (B2, B3)
- Patricia
- Vocals (B2, B3)
- Pointer Sisters
- Vocals (B2, B3)
- Betty Davis
- Vocals [Uncredited], Written-By, Arranged By
- Annie Sampson
- Voice [1st Voice] (B3)
- Kathi McDonald
- Voice [3rd Voice] (A2, A3, B3)
- Patryce Banks
- Voice [4th Voice] (A4, B1, B3)
- Sylvester
- Voice [5th Voice] (B3)
- Willy Sparks III
- Voice [Bass Voice], Bass Vocals [Bass Voice] (B1)
