Slave

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Based on 1 review
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Based on 15 ratings
1977 Ratings: #205
April 1, 1977 / Release Date
LP / Format
Cotillion / Label
Funk / Genre
Jeff DixonProducer
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SJCTurntable
45

Founded by trumpeter and multi-instrumentalist, Steve Washington, and trombonist, Floyd Miller in Dayton Ohio in late 1975, Slave were signed to Cotillion Records, a subsidiary of Atlantic Records, and would score their first hit in 1977 with ‘Slide’, which topped the Billboard R&B Chart for just under twenty weeks. The debut album was largely critically well-received with aggressive funk disco horns and the much heralded bass guitar of Mark Adams throughout. Yet, this reviewer ... read more

Z.Younk
80

Like other Ohio funk acts, Wild Cherry, their first album had that iconic garage-funk sound that is just a ton of fun and set off a movement in the area that yielded a ton of great bands (really The Isley Brothers and O'Jays started the Ohio funk movement though).

tha138
72

The band from Ohio releases its debut and manages to lift up the shimmering world of funk with its unstoppable, punchy grooves, extremely programmed to slide.

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Track List

  1. Slide
  2. Screw You Wig on Tite
  3. Party Hardy
  4. Son of Slide
  5. You and Me
  6. Love Me
  7. The Happiest Days
  8. Separated
  9. Slide - Single Version
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