You Can Be, by Music Makers Band

You Can Be

by Music Makers Band

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This is the 18th release in the deluxe Now-Again Reserve Edition. A detailed book is included with the album, and that book is included as a bonus, digital PDF.

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Record/Vinyl + Digital Album
Double album packaged in a gatefold sleeve w/ OBI and resealable plastic bag. Contains an oversized booklet that contains Music Makers Band's incredible story and the story behind these recordings, including many previously unpublished photographs.

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Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album
1 Disc CD, with all the Now Again Reserve Edition bonus material, packaged in a 6-panel eco-wallet.

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1.	That Look In Your Eyes 03:04	buy track
2.	You Can Be 03:33	buy track
3.	Lady In My Dream 04:50	buy track
4.	Let Me Start Lovin' You 02:17	buy track
5.	That's The Way 02:55	buy track
6.	Shake Your Booty 03:08	buy track
7.	That True Love Of Mine 05:45	buy track
8.	We're The Band 03:30	buy track
9.	That Look In Your Eyes (Instrumental) 03:04	buy track
10.	You Can Be (Instrumental) 03:32	buy track
11.	That's The Way (Instrumental) 03:41	buy track
12.	That True Love Of Mine (Instrumental) 05:28	buy track
13.	Let Me Start Lovin' You (Instrumental) 02:17	buy track
14.	We're The Band (Instrumental) 03:29	buy track
15.	You Can Be (Kenny Dope's Extended Mix) 06:05	buy track
16.	You Can Be (Kenny Dope's Extended Instrumental) 06:05	buy track
17.	That's The Way (Kenny Dope's Extended Mix) 04:54	buy track
18.	That's The Way (Kenny Dope's Extended Instrumental) 04:50	buy track

about

Previously unreleased disco-soul-funk album with mixes by Kenny Dope.Tucked in the back corner of a linen closet in Macon, Georgia since 1979 sat a box that very few people knew existed. Lost and presumed forgotten, this box contained reel-to-reel tapes of the lost album by the band that issued the lauded Black Gold as The Mighty Chevelles in 1977.

By 1979, while transitioning to the name Music Makers Band, the band entered Capricorn Studios and recorded this previously-unreleased disco funk opus, finally issued as You Can Be as part of the Now-Again Reserve series.

Nearly all songs have been remixed from the original multi-track masters by Kenny “Dope” Gonzalez.

credits

released May 26, 2022

Original sessions produced by Ernest Hill
This album produced for issue by Eothen Alapatt; researched by Brian Poust and Eothen Alapatt with liner notes and annotation by Brian Poust.
All songs licensed courtesy Ernest Hill and Music Makers Band.
Original mixes by unknown engineer. Remixes by Kenny “Dope” Gonzalez.
Mastered by Jason Bitner
Art direction by Errol F. Richardson.
Photos and ephemera courtesy Ernest Hill and Music Makers Band. Tape transfers by Dan Johnson at Audio Archiving, Los Angeles.

Thanks: Ernest Hill, Rick Wojcik and Dusty Groove, Brian Poust, Ben Lowrie, Davey Shook, Agnieszka Czeblakow.

LP, CD, Digital. Originally issued as part of the Now-Again Reserve Subscription Service. 2020. NA5207.