Lost Arthur Lee and Love album 'Black Beauty' to be released June 7
latimesblogs.latimes.com | Mar 3rd 2011
A previously unreleased 1973 album by influential Los Angeles psychedelic soul
band Arthur Lee and Love will surface belatedly on June 7 as the initial
release from a new boutique reissue label, High Moon Records.
Lee had planned to put “Black Beauty” out on his Buffalo Records label, but the
company folded before it came out and the tracks were shelved. High Moon will
release the 10 tracks originally planned to be on the album along with bonus
tracks, new liner notes and previously unpublished photos from the period.
Rolling Stone writer David Fricke wrote in a guide to the band’s bootleg
recordings, “’Black Beauty’ might have been received as a strong comeback for
Lee, a turn to steamy R&B with heavy-guitar punch – if it had come out.”
“Black Beauty” was planned as a follow-up to Lee’s 1972 solo album “Vindicator”
and featured the first all-black lineup for the previously integrated group,
which first hit the charts in 1966 with the singles “7 And 7 Is” and “My Little
Red Book” and created the psychedelic era classic “Forever Changes” album in
1968.
New York-based High Moon plans to specialize in rare or previously unreleased
material, and in a statement with the announcement of the first release, label
president George Baer Wallace said of “Black Beauty”: “It is that rarest of
rock artifacts: a never-before-released, full-length studio album, from an
undisputed musical genius.”
--Randy Lewis
Photo of Arthur Lee in 2002. Credit: Brian Vander Brug / Los Angeles Times.
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