WOMAN FROM THE BOWLS OF HELL (BONDAGE ORIENTED)
ARTIST```````````````BETTY DAVIS
ALBUM```````````````THEY SAY I'M DIFFERENT
GENRE```````````````FUNK/SOUL
YEAR`````````````````1974
WHY:
Black Fire Betty frum Hell thats why. Damn. No funk-woman ever got close to her. This album is a curse.
SHORT BIOGRAPHY AND ALBUM INFO:
A wildly flamboyant funk diva with few equals even three decades after her debut, Betty Davis combined the gritty emotional realism of Tina Turner, the futurist fashion sense of David Bowie, and the trendsetting flair of Miles Davis, her husband for a year. It's easy to imagine the snickers when a 23-year-old model married a famous musician twice her age, but Davis was no gold digger; she turned Miles on to Jimi Hendrix and Sly Stone (providing the spark that led to his musical reinvention on In a Silent Way and Bitches Brew), then proved her own talents with a trio of sizzling mid-'70s solo LPs....
Betty Davis' second full-length featured a similar set of songs as her debut, though with Davis herself in the production chair and a radically different lineup. The openers, "Shoo-B-Doop and Cop Him" and "He Was a Big Freak," are big, blowsy tunes with stop-start funk rhythms and Davis in her usual persona as the aggressive sexual predator. On the title track, she reminisces about her childhood and compares herself to kindred spirits of the past, a succession of blues legends she holds fond -- including special time for Bessie Smith, Chuck Berry, and Robert Johnson. A pair of unknowns, guitarist Cordell Dudley and bassist Larry Johnson, do a fair job of replacing the stars from her first record. As a result, They Say I'm Different is more keyboard-dominated than her debut, with prominent electric piano, clavinet, and organ from Merl Saunders, Hershall Kennedy, and Tony Vaughn. The material was even more extreme than on her debut; "He Was a Big Freak" featured a prominent bondage theme, while "Your Mama Wants Ya Back" and "Don't Call Her No Tramp" dealt with prostitution, or at least inferred it.
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6 comments:
blastin' cut... thanx for this!
Enjoy:)
I was a ten year old boy growing up washington dc when this album dropped. Don't You Call Her No Tramp was a track I listened to religiously. My Mom, however thought it was the devil's music. Now that I'm a gay man, maybe she knew something . . .
Thank you for preserving this gem of my youth.
:) Enjoy and tnx for this beautiful comment :)
what a gem! thanks!
Excellent thanks for sharing, nice music.
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