Earth, Wind & Fire – Best Of: Volume 1 (CD) collection-grateful-dead honing our craft and showing

honing our craft and showing up for one another

"Blessing & A Curse" finds Patterson Hood

Directed by David Leland (credits including the feature Wish You Were Here

and the weight of expectation with the emotional directness that defines Rateliff's songwriting

Recorded at East West In Los Angeles and Shangri-la in Malibu

Earth, Wind & Fire – Best Of: Volume 1 (CD) collection-grateful-dead honing our craft and showingMaurice White built Earth, Wind & Fire into one of the most musically ambitious ensembles in American popular music, weaving together funk, jazz, gospel, and Afrocentic philosophy into something that transcended genre categories entirely. The tracks gathered here represent the peak of that run, the late 70s era when the band's horn arrangements, Philip Bailey's stratospheric falsetto, and White's production instincts were all firing at once. This