24-Carat Black's Legendary Debut

24-Carat Black – Brown Baggin’

I thought I’d commemorate the release of 24-Carat Black’s Gone: The Promises of Yesterday, with a quick Dig Deep post on the first record. (more…)

Early Version of the Cover For This Release

24-Carat Black – I’ll Never Let You Go

For the second time in as many years, a musical dream of mine has come true. In 2008, I learned that there were instrumental versions of the records that David Axelrod recorded with the Electric Prunes.  I was nothing short of amazed. This collection of recordings from the legendary 24-Carat Black tops that find significantly.

Some 35 years after it was recorded, the Numero Group has dug up the long lost recordings for the second album by 24-Carat Black. The 6 songs on this collection aptly titled Gone: The Promises of Yesterday are very much in the spirit of the debut, sonically, but not thematically. While some of the members in the group had changed, the core returns, Dale Warren, Princess Hearn and a seriously funky drummer Tyrone Steels. Based on the songs on this collection, it appears that band-leader Dale Warren was interested in presenting another concept record, but instead of one focused on the urban condition, he was broadening his scope to focus on love. (more…)