Head To The sky
As phenomenally popular as Earth, wind & fire was from the mid-’70s to the early ’80s, it’s easy to forget that the circle was hardly an overnight success With Head to the sky — EWF’s fourth record record album overall, second with Philip Bailey, and second for Columbia — Maurice White’s very spiritual and ambitious marque of soul and funk was start to salary off commercially. The Latin-influenced “Evil” became the soulsters’ biggest hit up to that point, and material ranging from the hauntingly pretty rubric song to the idle words merger stone “Zanzibar” is just as rewarding. The batting order White unveiled with Last Days and Time was workings out beautifully; Bailey was clearly proving to be a major plus Also worth noting is the presence of vocalizer Jessica Cleaves, who left after this record record album and, several years later, resurfaced in St. George Clinton’s eccentric person female group the bride of Funkenstein. EWF still had what was basically a cult following, but that was beginning to change with Head to the sky And when EWF took off commercially in 1974 and 1975, many new converts went back and saw for themselves just how excellent an record album Head to the sky was.
Tracks:
01. Evil
02. Keep Your Head to the Sky
03. Build Your Nest
04. The World’s a Masquerade
05. Clover
06. Zanzibar
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