Betty Davis
Is It Love Or Desire (LP)
FormatLPLabelLight In The AtticGenreJazz & Improvisation
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Betty Davis was a musical maverick with vision. Image, substance, sex, and grit combined with a badass band that could deliver the funk bed backbone to the sultry music between the sheets. After cutting two notorious discs for the Just Sunshine label (Betty Davis, and They Say I’m Different), and Nasty Gal for Island Records, Davis went to work on her most personal and expressive record yet. After capturing 10 hard-hitting tracks in 1976 at the remote Studio In The Country (Louisiana), a creative difference with her then label caused the platter to be unexpectedly shelved. Davis would cut one final album and soon retreat from the music business, completely disappearing from the public eye.
Is It Love Or Desire is a little-known gem in the Davis catalog. Mastered from the original tapes, and untouched for over 30 years, this release features detailed liner notes, the originally intended artwork housed in a lavishly packaged digipak, rare photos, archival material, and recent interviews with Davis and her skin-tight band Funk House.
Never bootlegged, never released, never heard until now, the secret story of this lost album will finally enter the history books and cement this bold soul sister's contributions to music and popular culture. It's time to get down…
Long live Betty Davis!
- Betty’s previously unreleased 1976 album!
- LP available on Standard Black Wax or Special Gold Color Edition or Limited Color Vinyl (Silver Metallic)
- Expanded vinyl edition featuring gatefold jacket and booklet including rare photos and lyrics
- Vinyl plated at RTI
- CD housed in a digipak and featuring expanded booklet
Format
Recorded in 1976, but unreleased until 2009.
© 1975 Betty Mabry Music Co./Higher Music Publishing Inc. (ASCAP)
℗ © 2009 Light In The Attic Records & Distribution, LLC.
Release notes
Recorded in 1976, but unreleased until 2009. ℗ © 2021 Light In The Attic Records & Distribution, LLC. This reissue has an OBI strip.
| A1 | Is It Love Or Desire | 2:36 | |
| A2 | It's So Good | 3:20 | |
| A3 | Whorey Angel | 5:02 | |
| A4 | Crashin' From Passion | 3:24 | |
| A5 | When Romance Says Goodbye | 3:43 | |
| B1 | Bottom Of The Barrel | 3:47 | |
| B2 | Stars Starve, You Know | 3:35 | |
| B3 | Let's Get Personal | 3:32 | |
| B4 | Bar Hoppin' | 3:12 | |
| B5 | For My Man | 1:42 |
- Larry Johnson
- Bass
- Strath Shepard
- Design
- Semmie (Nickey) Neal Jr.
- Drums
- Bill Evans
- Engineer
- Josh Wright
- Executive-Producer [Release]
- Matt Sullivan
- Executive-Producer [Release], Producer [Release]
- Carlos Morales
- Guitar
- Fred Mills
- Keyboards
- Oliver Wang
- Liner Notes
- Nathaniel Corbett
- Percussion
- Fin Costello
- Photography By [Album Cover, Back Cover]
- Kate Peterson
- Producer [Assistance]
- Betty Davis
- Producer, Written-By, Arranged By, Vocals
- Bob Irwin
- Remastered By
