Betty Davis Nasty Gal Light In The Attic

On nasty gal davis in red sequinned negligee posed with knees spread wide.

Betty davis nasty gal light in the attic.

For the first time her critically adored first two albums are being lovingly re mastered from the original master tapes by light in the attic records to sound as ferocious and revolutionary as they. That album featured her standout anti. What emerged was the unapologetically uncompromising self referential 1975 album nasty gal. Davis and her well seasoned road band funk house entered the studio with total.

A blinding flash of white light beaming from between her legs like a beacon with the promise of ecstasy. Betty davis was riding high. So betty and band got back into the studio where she would act as writer producer and performer creating her definitive release nasty gal. A decade ago light in the attic set about reissuing the long dormant early 70s funk catalog of betty davis starting with her self titled 1973 opus.

In 2009 light in the attic records reissued nasty gal and her unreleased fourth studio album recorded in 1976 re titled as is it love or desire. While a number of critics think 1975 s nasty gal was the weakest of davis three original studio albums to my ears this is simply the kind of hardcore soul and funk that will scrape the paint off of your walls and send some sensitive folks running for the doors. Funk diva betty davis was supposed to break big upon the release of her third album nasty gal after all her just sunshine records contract had been bought up by chris blackwell and island records and they were prepared to invest not only big money in the recording but in the promotion of the 1975 release. Betty davis nasty gal label.

With a group of likeminded female friends davis would make her way both backstage and into various beds bringing with her an unstoppable intellect and a. Both betty davis 1973 and they say i m different 1974 were reissued by light in the attic records in 2007.