LOVE IS THE WAY

Vinyl LP pressing. Drum-machine soul, funk, disco and boogie from Buffalo, NYC. Rare 7o singles and previously unreleased tracks presented as an album for the first time. In the early AE70s, Jessie Key and Sylvester Cleary u two passionate idealists living in Buffalo, New York u formed a close friendship based on a mutual mission to better their city. The Attica State Prison Riot of 1971 was a burning memory, and the Arthur vs. Nyquist lawsuit u brought against the City of Buffalo for creating and maintaining a racially segregated school system u was on the docket. Key was once a cotton-laborer in Mississippi, who journeyed north for school where he met his kindred spirit, Cleary. The two struck up an intense friendship, bought a drum machine and recorded their first 45, oA Man,o a paean to self-actualization and Black American empowerment, which they custom pressed and issued privately.'