Review: With her first album in 1973, Betty Davis arrived like a stick of TNT sizzling her fuse right down and ready to blow the funk scene wide open. A woman singing, writing, recording and producing her music herself, the world wasn't ready for her, and on this debut album you can hear how fully-formed and charismatic she was even at her rawest. Backed by her band Funk House, she lays it down any way she pleases, which more often than not is strongly seductive. Light In The Attic's dedicated reissue series is shining a light back on Davis' landmark run of records and this is without a doubt one of the best of the bunch.
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