Event Listing - Music

Tue Dec 8 - Wed Dec 9

Yoshi's San Francisco presents

Average White Band

Tel. 415.655.5600
Website

Location	Date and Time
Yoshi's San Francisco 1330 Fillmore Street San Francisco, CA 94115 map cross street: Eddy district: Japantown/Fillmore	Tue Dec 8 (8PM and 10PM) Wed Dec 9 (8PM and 10PM)

Description

AWB are widely regarded as one of the best soul and funk bands in the history of music. Though perhaps best known for their timeless instrumental mega-hit 'Pick Up the Pieces' the band's strength actually lay in their consistently accomplished song- writing, stretching across several gold selling albums and multi- grammy nominations for the legendary Atlantic Records. Somewhat incongruously, given their Scottish roots, the six piece took the influences of their R&B heroes - people like Marvin Gaye, James Brown, Donny Hathaway and others - and developed their own 'authentic' sound which was eagerly adopted by black audiences in the US and elsewhere. Whilst a good number of cuts - 'Cut The Cake' and 'Let's Go Round Again' to name but two - attracted chart action as hit singles, many other album tracks, like 'Schoolboy Crush' and 'Stop The Rain' became much sampled and turn tabled 'rare' grooves.