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1619 Bad Ass Band “Where Do I Go From Here?” & “Just For You”

Another band I know nothing of but got my hands on randomly. The group put out a self titled album in 1977, the A side of which sounds like Funkadelic, but too soggy to have much of a punch. The B side starts out much stronger, with the group’s lady vocalist stepping up where their froggy man vocalist could not reach. “Where Do I Go” is a Carpenters cover, I believe, (Petula Clark, maybe?) and it’s treated well; thinner (oops?) instrumentally, significantly more soulful. The latter track is a little more flush, tasteful string arrangements filling the aural bowl closer to the top. If only the drumming patterns would switch up a little…