Betty Davis "Crashin' From Passion" Color:Black 1999 by the Recording Industry

1999 by the Recording Industry Association of America

plus the 1983 B-side version of "Evil Eyes" as a bonus track

and the updated branding of a longtime bandleader who'd decided to expand his reach

and wizened repo veterans

Betty Davis "Crashin' From Passion" Color:Black 1999 by the Recording IndustryIn the 1970s, Betty Davis defied genre and gender by pushing her voice to extremes and embracing the erotic. She articulated a kind of pre punk, funk blues fusion that had yet to be normalized in mainstream music a style that few musicians have come close to replicating. As one of the first Black women to write, arrange, and produce her own albums, Betty was a visionary who disregarded industry boundaries and constraints. Raw, unapologetic and in full