That album featured her standout anti.
Betty davis nasty gal light in the attic.
For the first time her critically adored first two albums are being lovingly re mastered from the original master tapes by light in the attic records to sound as ferocious and revolutionary as they.
Now thirty five years later light in the attic records is proud to announce the first official cd reissue of this final label release by unparalleled funkstress betty davis.
What emerged was the unapologetically uncompromising self referential 1975 album nasty gal.
With a group of likeminded female friends davis would make her way both backstage and into various beds bringing with her an unstoppable intellect and a.
Funk diva betty davis was supposed to break big upon the release of her third album nasty gal after all her just sunshine records contract had been bought up by chris blackwell and island records and they were prepared to invest not only big money in the recording but in the promotion of the 1975 release.
So betty and band got back into the studio where she would act as writer producer and performer creating her definitive release nasty gal.
A blinding flash of white light beaming from between her legs like a beacon with the promise of ecstasy.
Betty davis was riding high.
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Both betty davis 1973 and they say i m different 1974 were reissued by light in the attic records in 2007.
On nasty gal davis in red sequinned negligee posed with knees spread wide.
A decade ago light in the attic set about reissuing the long dormant early 70s funk catalog of betty davis starting with her self titled 1973 opus.
This track is from the betty davis album nasty gal reissued by light in the attic records and available here.
While a number of critics think 1975 s nasty gal was the weakest of davis three original studio albums to my ears this is simply the kind of hardcore soul and funk that will scrape the paint off of your walls and send some sensitive folks running for the doors.