Ohio Players

Emboldened by the crossover success of 1974's "Jive Turkey," The Ohio Players followed through with their most commercially successful and artistically sophisticated release. The title track and "Running from the Devil" are classic slabs of loose and easy 70s funk, while the spring-heeled soul of "Together" shows that the group can work within tighter pop paradigms.

Uneven is the word for the Ohio Players. They're a progressive soul group in that they
write and produce their own material, but they've got roots in Fifties doo-wop. Their
sound is spaced on the surface, owing more to Hendrix than to Sly, but underneath the
rhythm instruments play tightly, sometimes rigidly. As a unit they play pulsating dance
music with stylistic unanimity but guitarist Sugarfoot, who looks something like a... More >

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