Player (1977) Movin Up - LOST 70s GEMS

Player started life as a semi acoustic group called Riff Raff and after name changes, personnel changes and legal entanglements they emerged with this gloriously unique album. Some cuts are by this point dated to having been written in 1975 and recorded in 76 with a Bee Gees mix of funk ballads and high thin falsetto choruses like this one and Love is Where You Find It. But it's a strong sound with a bouncy back and forth beat, thick mix of acoustic guitars and a sweet lead guitar tone with a lush sustain resembling the soft rock of Bread and Guitar Man. The harmonies are high and punchy as opposed to the syrupy dreariness of Bread, this band visually and in their arrangement are closer to white funk band Wild Cherry with their gruff lead vocals and offbeat drum beat. Movin Up's chorus rhtymm is punctuated by the furiously tactile playing of scratchy funk guitars, heard mainly in jazz fusion records. All in all a nice and unique sound of funky disco cowboy soft rock!