Earth, Wind & Fire - Last Days And Time (1972) CD Rip

Tracklist

01 - Time Is On Your Side
02 - Interlude
03 - They Don't See
04 - Interlude
05 - Make It With You
06 - Power
07 - Remember The Children
08 - Interlude
09 - Where Have All The Flowers Gone
10 - I'd Rather Have You
11 - Mom

personnel :

Verdine White – vocals, bass, percussion
Maurice White – vocals, drums, percussion, kalimba
Philip Bailey – vocals, percussion
Jessica Cleaves – vocals
Roland Bautista – acoustic and electric guitars
Ronnie Laws – flute, soprano and tenor saxophones
Larry Dunn – piano, organ, clavinet
Ralph Johnson – drums, percussion

Earth, Wind & Fire were nothing if not ambitious, and by the time of their third album they had forged an individual sound by absorbing nearly everything that had gone before them in the previous ten years. It was as if they were trying to encapsulate every eclectic foray pursued by Motown, from catchy, rhythmic pop to churning funk, and even from Stevie Wonder singing borrowed folk songs like "Blowin' in the Wind" (here, Philip Bailey did "Where Have All the Flowers Gone") to the schmaltzy, string-filled pop that spelled legitimacy to Motown. Not only that, they wanted to incorporate Sly & the Family Stone's horn-filled, gutbucket R&B and some of the fusion style of Weather Report. On Last Days and Time, they succeeded in pulling all that into their orbit, but they hadn't yet managed one crucial thing: they hadn't learned to write hits. That would come next.~William Ruhlmann