Original Album Series

Description

2013 five CD box set containing a quintet of albums packaged in cardboard mini LP sleeves and housed in a slipcase. Tower of Power has remained a significant Californian funk/soul/R&B horn band since it’s formation in 1968. As well as performing as a band in their own right, Tower of Power have worked with an impressive selection of other acts as a horn section including major acts such Carlos Santana, the Grateful Dead and John Lee Hooker. Included in this collection is the 1973 hit ‘So Very Hard to Go’, from the band’s most successful album to date: Tower of Power, which reached #15 in the Billboard 200, and was later certified Gold. Included in this 5 cd collection are the hit songs ‘You’re Still a Young Man,’ on the debut album Bump City, and ‘Don’t Change Horses (In the Middle of a Stream),’ on the 1974 album Back to Oakland.