AWB (album)


AWB also known as The White Album and also AWB '74 is the second studio album by the Scottish funk and soul band Average White Band, released on 23 August 1974.
AWB topped Billboard's Pop Albums and Black Albums charts. Its million-selling single "Pick Up the Pieces" knocked Linda Ronstadt's "You're No Good" out of #1 on Billboard's Hot 100. In Canada, the album was #2 for 3 weeks to Elton John's Greatest Hits.
A 2004 expanded re-issue from Sony/Columbia in the UK includes a bonus CD with several demo session recordings made before the group joined Atlantic Records – taken from the so-called "Clover Sessions," recorded at Clover Studios, Los Angeles, CA, in 1973. This album was eventually released as How Sweet Can You Get?
AWB was the final Average White Band album to feature the band's original drummer Robbie Mcintosh, who died in late September 1974, a month after the album's release.

Track listing

;Side one
  1. "You Got It" – 3:38
  2. "Got the Love" – 3:52
  3. "Pick Up the Pieces" – 3:58
  4. "Person to Person" – 3:38
  5. "Work to Do" – 4:21
;Side two
  1. "Nothing You Can Do" – 4:06
  2. "Just Wanna Love You Tonight" – 3:57
  3. "Keepin' It to Myself" – 3:52
  4. "I Just Can't Give You Up" – 3:24
  5. "There's Always Someone Waiting" – 5:38
All songs arranged by Average White Band. All horn parts arranged by Roger Ball.
;Bonus track on 1995 Rhino re-issue :

Expanded 2CD re-issue (2004)

;Disc one
Original release
;Disc two – The Clover Sessions / How Sweet Can You Get?
  1. "Person to Person"
  2. "Keepin' It To Myself"
  3. "There's Always Someone Waiting"
  4. "McEwan's Export"
  5. "Got the Love"
  6. "Work to Do"
  7. "Just Want to Love You Tonight"
  8. "Pick Up the Pieces"
  9. "I Just Can't Give You Up"
  10. "How Sweet Can You Get "
;Bonus tracks on 2005 Columbia-Europe re-issue

Personnel

Average White Band

Additional musicians

Other musicians


Production

Chart positions

Billboard Music Charts