Blued-Eyed Soul Is Just Soul

Good Sunday afternoon!  Lastnight while driving home, I was surfing the channels, going between an assortment of talk shows and music stations when the sounds of one of my favorite groups from back in the day flowed from the speakers.  It was "Person to Person" by the Average White Band, or AWB. My mind immediate traveled back to high school.  It was then that AWB was churning out their best music; "Cut the Cake," 'School Boy Crush", "Pick Up the Pieces," "A Love of Your Own," and so many more. When the song concluded, the DJ, expressing his appreciation for AWB, said "That was AWB, bringing some blue-eyed soul."

Thinking back, when I first heard AWB, their music was so funky, soulful and cool, it never occured to me that they weren't black. And while their name told us that they were in fact white, still, there was nothing average about this band.  I can still remember a few debates about the ethnicity of AWB when they first hit the scene. Of course there was no Youtube, and music videos were extremely rare, so questions loomed until you either purchased the album or saw them on television. I can't recall, but