EARTH WIND FIRE/SPIRIT

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LIMITED 180GM FLAMING COLORED VINYL LP. INCLUDES INSERT. SPIRIT IS THE SEVENTH STUDIO ALBUM BY EARTH WIND FIRE RELEASED IN 1976 BY COLUMBIA RECORDS. THE ALBUM ROSE TO NO.2 ON BOTH THE BILLBOARD 200 AND TOP SOUL ALBUMS CHARTS. TWO SINGLES BECAME HUGE HITS GETAWAY REACHED NO.1 ON THE BILLBOARD HOT SOUL SONGS CHART. THE SINGLE ALSO ROSE TO NO.12 ON THE BILLBOARD HOT 100. SATURDAY NITE PEAKED AT NO.4 ON THE BILLBOARD HOT SOUL SONGS CHART AND NO.21 ON THE BILLBOARD HOT 100 CHART. SPIRIT RECEIVED CRITICAL ACCLAIM. THE NEW YORK TIMES WROTE WHAT IS MOST INTERESTING ABOUT MAURICE WHITE AND HIS MUSICIANS IS THEIR REFUSAL TO BE LOCKED INTO ANY STYLISTIC FORMAT MR. WHITES RECORD WILL BE LABELLED DISCO IN SOME QUARTERS AND INDEED PARTS OF IT WOULD NOT SOUND OUT OF PLACE IN A DISCO. BUT GENERALLY EARTH WIND AND FIRE IS CLOSER TO JAZZ OR TO JAZZ ROCK THAN TO THE THUMPING FORMULAS OF DISCO. AND YET THE GROUP ISNT AFRAID TO SLIP IN A BALLAD EITHER. ISAAC HAYES CALLED SPIRIT ONE OF EARTH WIND FIRES FIVE ESSENTIAL RECORDINGS. SPIRIT WAS ALSO NOMINATED FOR AN AMERICAN MUSIC AWARD FOR FAVOURITE SOUL/RB ALBUM. A SONG FROM THE ALBUM CALLED EARTH WIND AND FIRE WAS ALSO GRAMMY NOMINATED IN THE CATEGORY OF BEST INSTRUMENTAL COMPOSITION.