The Average White Band / “All The Pieces”: career-spanning 19CD box

Demon Music are set to issue an Average White Band anthology that celebrates the Scottish soul/funk band’s entire career across a mammoth 19 CDs.

All The Pieces includes all the studio albums with the discs packaged as vinyl replicas including a few gatefolds (including 1976’s Person To Person which is a two-disc set). This collection also comes with two bonus CDs which gather rarities and remixes from across the decades.

A 52-page booklet accompanies the audio within and features extensive liner notes with contributions from Alan Gorrie and Hamish Stuart.

All The Pieces: The Complete Studio Recordings 1973-2003 is available at the time of writing for less than £50 and will be released on 14 July 2014.

• • UK Pre-order: All The Pieces – Complete Studio Recordings 1973-2003
• • USA Order: All the Pieces-The Complete Studio Recordings 1973-2003
• • CANADA Order: All the Pieces-The Complete Studio Recordings 1973
• • GERMANY Pre-order: All the Pieces-Complete Studio Recordings 1971-200

Track listing

CD01 SHOW YOUR HAND (1973)

• 1. The Jugglers 4.51
• 2. This World Has Music 5.58
• 3. Twilight Zone 5.28
• 4. Put It Where You Want It 5.17
• 5. Show Your Hand 4.35
• 6. Back In ’67 4.12
• 7. Reach Out 4.04
• 8. T.L.C. 8.07

CD02 HOW SWEET CAN YOU GET? aka The Clover Sessions (2003)

• 1. Person To Person 3.23
• 2. Keepin’ It To Myself 3.10
• 3. There’s Always Someone Waiting 5.02
• 4. McEwan’s Export 4.48
• 5. Got The Love 3.42
• 6. Work To Do 3.42
• 7. Just Want To Love You Tonight 4.43
• 8. Pick Up The Pieces 3.57
• 9. I Just Can’t Give You Up 3.45
• 10. How Sweet Can You Get? (first version) 3.41

CD03 AVERAGE WHITE BAND (1974)

• 1. You Got It 3.30
• 2. Got The Love 3.47
• 3. Pick Up The Pieces 3.55
• 4. Person To Person 3.36
• 5. Work To Do 4.20
• 6. Nothing You Can Do 4.04
• 7. Just Want To Love You Tonight 3.54
• 8. Keepin’ It To Myself 3.57
• 9. I Just Can’t Give You Up 3.27
• 10. There’s Always Someone Waiting 5.27

CD04 PUT IT WHERE YOU WANT IT (1975)

• 1. How Can You Go Home? 3.05 *
• 2. This World Has Music 5.58
• 3. Twilight Zone 5.28
• 4. Put It Where You Want It 5.17
• 5. Show Your Hand 4.33
• 6. Back In ’67 4.12
• 7. Reach Out 4.04
• 8. T.L.C. 8.07

CD05 CUT THE CAKE (1975)

• 1. Cut The Cake 4.05
• 2. School Boy Crush 5.00
• 3. It’s A Mystery 3.56
• 4. Groovin’ The Night Away 3.43
• 5. If I Ever Lose This Heaven 4.59
• 6. Why 4.06
• 7. High Flyin’ Woman 3.47
• 8. Cloudy 4.21
• 9. How Sweet Can You Get? 3.59
• 10. When They Bring Down The Curtain 4.43

CD06 SOUL SEARCHING (1976)

• 1. Overture 2.14
• 2. Love Your Life 4.52
• 3. I’m The One 4.19
• 4. A Love Of Your Own 5.34
• 5. Queen Of My Soul 6.05
• 6. Soul Searching 3.17
• 7. Goin’ Home 4.39
• 8. Everybody’s Darling 3.34
• 9. Would You Stay 5.34
• 10. Sunny Days (Make Me Think Of You) 3.19
• 11. Digging Deeper (Finale) 2.44

CD07 & CD08 PERSON TO PERSON (1976)

• 1. Person To Person 7.04
• 2. Cut The Cake 5.05
• 3. If I Ever Lose This Heaven 8.10
• 4. Cloudy 6.36
•  5. T.L.C. 14.19
• 6. I’m The One 4.42
• 7. Pick Up The Pieces 18.34
• 8. Love Your Life 5.08
• 9. School Boy Crush 7.38
• 10. I Heard It Through The Grapevine 9.56

CD09 BENNY AND US (1977) 

• 1. Get It Up For Love 4.34
• 2. Fool For You Anyway 5.39
• 3. A Star In The Ghetto 7.01
•  4. The Message 5.18
• 5. What Is Soul 4.34
• 6. Someday We’ll All Be Free 5.14
• 7. Imagine 4.57
• 8. Keepin’ It To Myself 4.29

CD10 WARMER COMMUNICATIONS (1978)

• 1. Your Love Is A Miracle 6.07
• 2. Same Feeling, Different Song 5.19
• 3. Daddy’s All Gone 4.39
• 4. Big City Lights 4.56
• 5. She’s A Dream 5.36
• 6. Warmer Communications 4.12
• 7. The Price Of A Dream 4.03
• 8. Sweet And Sour 4.50
• 9. One Look Over My Shoulder (Is This Really Goodbye?) 3.58

CD11 FEEL NO FRET (1979)

• 1. When Will You Be Mine 4.26
• 2. Please Don’t Fall In Love 3.44
• 3. Walk On By 3.59
• 4. Feel No Fret 6.24
• 5. Stop The Rain 4.30
• 6. Atlantic Avenue 3.16
• 7. Ace Of Hearts 3.51
• 8. Too Late To Cry 4.00
• 9. Fire Burning 3.29

CD12 SHINE (1980) 

• 1. Our Time Has Come 3.36
• 2. For You, For Love 3.53
• 3. Let’s Go Round Again 4.57
• 4. Whatcha Gonna Do For Me? 4.10
• 5. Into The Night 4.00
• 6. Catch Me (Before I Have To Testify) 5.00
• 7. Help Is On The Way 4.19
• 8. If Love Only Lasts For One Night 4.39
• 9. Shine 3.56

CD13 VOLUME VIII (1980)

• 1. Kiss Me 3.49
•  2. Love Won’t Get In The Way 5.08
• 3. Love Gives, Love Takes Away 4.05
• 4. Growing Pains 4.28
• 5. Pick Up The Pieces 3.55
• 6. Person To Person 3.36
• 7. Cut The Cake 4.05
• 8. A Love Of Your Own 4.01
• 9. Queen Of My Soul 4.34

CD14 CUPID’S IN FASHION (1982)

• 1. You’re My Number One 3.23
• 2. Easier Said Than Done 4.07
• 3. You Wanna Belong 4.27
• 4. Cupid’s In Fashion 4.22
• 5. Theatre Of Excess 4.26
• 6. I Believe 4.31
• 7. Is It Love That You’re Running From 4.15
• 8. Reach Out (I’ll Be There) 3.52
• 9. Isn’t It Strange 3.25
• 10. Love’s A Heartache 4.48

CD15 AFTERSHOCK (1988)

• 1. The Spirit Of Love 4.05
• 2. Sticky Situation 4.29
• 3. Aftershock 4.07
• 4. Love At First Sight 4.47
• 5. I’ll Get Over You 4.32
• 6. Later We’ll Be Greater 3.52
• 7. Let’s Go All The Way 5.53
• 8. We’re In Too Deep 3.54
• 9. Stocky Sachoo-A-Shun 1.38

CD16 SOUL TATTOO (1996) 

• 1. Soul Mine 4.25
• 2. Back to Basics 3.59
• 3. Livin’ On Borrowed Time 4.13
• 4. Every Beat Of My Heart 5.46
• 5. When We Get Down To It 4.03
• 6. Oh Maceo 3.39
• 7. Do Ya Really 4.26
• 8. I Wanna Be Loved 4.33
• 9. No Easy Way To Say Goodbye 4.28
• 10. Love Is The Bottom Line 4.04
• 11. Welcome To The Real World 4.16
• 12. Window To Your Soul 5.05
• 13. You Shoulda’ Known 0.00

CD17 LIVING IN COLOUR (2003)

• 1. Check Your Groove 4.59
• 2. Down To The River 5.26
• 3. Living In Colour 4.54
• 4. One Of My Heartbeats 5.06
• 5. Close To You Tonight 5.02
• 6. Half Moon In The Crescent City 5.13
• 7. Think Small 6.15
• 8. I Can’t Help It 4.37
• 9. I’m Gonna Make You Love Me 4.52
•  10. Love Won’t Let Me Wait 3.43

CD18: ALTERNATE VERSIONS & RARITIES

• 1. Reach Out [first version – recorded 1971] 4.04
• 2. The Jugglers [first version – recorded 1971] 4.06
• 3. It Didn’t Take Me A Minute (recorded 1971 2.25
• 4. In The Beginning (recorded between 1971/1972) 3.46
• 5. Look Out Now (recorded between 1971/1972) 2.14
• 6. White Water Dreams (recorded between 1971/1972) 4.00
• 7. Walk Tall – Recorded live in 1976 (first released in 2005) 5.28
• 8. I’m Gonna Make You Love Me – Recorded live in 1976 (first released in 2005) 5.53
• 9. Wasn’t I Your Friend 6.16
• 10. Miss Sun – Recorded 1980 4.14

CD19: THE MIXES 

• 1. Back In ’67 [first version – Recorded between 1971/1972] 4.05
• 2. The Spirit Of Love (Radio Short Version) 4.05
• 3. The Spirit Of Love (Dance Mix) 7.28
• 4. Let’s Go Round Again [The Brothers Mix] 6.45
• 5. Livin’ On Borrowed Time (DJ Slok Remix) 5.21
• 6. Things (DJ Philly P & Joey M Remix) 7.44
• 7. Stop The Rain (Supreme One Mix) 4.08
• 8. Let’s Go Round Again (Cosmic Village Mix] 7.26
• 9. Let’s Go Round Again (12” Version) 6.27

• • UK Pre-order: All The Pieces – The Complete Studio Recordings 1973-2003