The Average White Band - Cut the Cake

In the informative liner notes that he wrote for Rhino's early-'90s reissue of Cut The Cake, writer A. Scott Galloway explains that this excellent album was recorded under less-than-ideal circumstances. The Average White Band's original drummer, Robbie Mcintosh, died of a heroin overdose in 1974, and the surviving members were still in mourning when they started working on their third album, Cut The Cake (which originally came out on LP in 1975). Steve Ferrone, a black drummer from London, England, was hired as a replacement -- ironically, he became the first black member of a Scottish soul/funk band that had a very African-American sound and a largely African-American following. Read More