Savoy Brown - A Step FurtherFirst pressing, 1969, Decca VG+ VG+

Press for The Optimist LP:

“The sounds and themes on INSIDE came from the experiments we started working on throughout lockdown in our home studio

It Is both ironic and yet somehow so right

They piled in to the studio with all their live gear and a handful of friends with handheld cameras

it’s a remarkably fresh taste

“A delicate

supreme cellist Tomeka Reid

I still shroud the reality of what I have written within something of a fictional setting

which Bettye co-wrote with Arthur Wright

Pull the Rope

While track titles such as 'The Supposed Middle Class' acutely display a concern for society at large

but here we are in 2022 and we are still buzzing about getting out on the road