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The Album Years

#55 1972 Soul Destroyers & The Indefinable: Gil Scott-Heron, Terry Callier, Scott Walker, Osibisa & more

The Album Years

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4.9859 Ratings

🗓️ 3 September 2024

⏱️ 30 minutes

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On this week's episode of The Album Years, we continue exploring deep into 1972, with great releases from soul legends Gil Scott-Heron & Terry Callier, and ever indefinable works from Todd Rundgren, Scott Walker, Osibisa and more! Pre-order Tim Bowness' eighth studio album Powder Dry here: https://burningshed.com/store/timbowness Get tickets for Steven Wilson's The Overview Tour in 2025: https://stevenwilsonhq.com/tour-dates For more info about The Album Years, visit https://thealbumyears.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

This episode is brought to you by Diet Coke.

0:04.0

Time for a Diet Coke break.

0:09.0

Enjoy what you like.

0:12.0

Just how you like it.

0:16.0

This is my taste.

0:20.0

What's yours? Celebrate your my taste. What's yours?

0:22.6

Celebrate your unique taste with Diet Coke. Let's move on Tim. Let's move on to a category that I confess right up front. I know very few of these albums.

0:55.6

Soul Destroyers, Soul Music, some great records coming out this year.

1:00.5

Isley Brothers, Brother, Brother, Brother, Brother.

1:02.1

Do you want to talk about that one?

1:03.1

No, I like it.

1:06.1

This is going to be a brief category.

1:08.1

I mean, I will know.

1:08.8

I think Isley Brothers really come into their own with Harvest for the World and

1:13.2

slightly later on, but this is really good.

1:15.3

I mean, this is a sort of era again, and I think it's retrospect.

1:18.0

I don't know whether it was called it at the time, but now, and it doesn't surprise me,

1:22.3

retrospectively, it's referred to as kind of progressive soul that a lot of the soul artists were really kind of stretching

1:29.6

their limits in the same way that a lot of rock bands were and one of the major moves in this was a guy

1:35.5

called Norman Whitfield who kind of wrote and produced albums for the temptations amongst others

1:40.6

and he really pushed this band into extended epic territory.

1:46.8

And I think this year he does an album with the Undisputed Truth,

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