AWB's artistic winning streak continued with its outstanding fourth album,
Soul Searching. Interestingly, this wasn't an album that enjoyed a great deal of publicity or that contained a lot of major hits. In fact, its biggest single, the dreamy "Queen of My Soul," only made it to number 21 on Billboard's R&B albums chart. But thanks to the devoted following
AWB had acquired since signing with Atlantic in 1974,
Soul Searching went gold. Indeed,
AWB aficionados were quite receptive to first-rate material ranging from the invigorating "I'm the One" to the hauntingly romantic "A Love of Your Own." By zeroing in on their strengths -- hard-hitting funk and delightfully melodic soul --
AWB saw to it that
Soul Searching was every bit as rewarding as its predecessors. ~ Alex Henderson