Artist: Earth Wind & Fire
Album: Raise!
Genre: R&B, Soul, Funk
Release Date: 1981/2015
Audio Format:: FLAC (tracks) 24 bit, 96 kHz
Duration: 38:28
Total Tracks: 9
Total Size: 884 MB

Tracklist:

01. Earth, Wind & Fire – Let’s Groove (05:39)
02. Earth, Wind & Fire – Lady Sun (03:40)
03. Earth, Wind & Fire – My Love (04:39)
04. Earth, Wind & Fire – Evolution Orange (04:38)
05. Earth, Wind & Fire – Kalimba Tree (00:25)
06. Earth, Wind & Fire – You Are a Winner (04:09)
07. Earth, Wind & Fire – I’ve Had Enough (04:37)
08. Earth, Wind & Fire – Wanna Be With You (04:40)
09. Earth, Wind & Fire – The Changing Times (05:59)

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Raise! is the eleventh studio album by Earth, Wind & Fire, produced by the band’s leader Maurice White for Kalimba Productions, and released in 1981 on CBS Records. Raise! has been certified platinum in the US by the RIAA for sales of over a million copies and gold in the UK and Canada by the British Phonographic Industry and Music Canada respectively.
Raise! was the bestselling R&B album of 1982. The album featured the #1 R&B and # 3 Pop hit “Let’s Groove”. The single “Wanna Be With You” won EWF a Grammy for Best R&B Vocal Performance By A Duo Or Group. Raise also marked the return to the band of rhythm guitarist Roland Bautista, last heard from on 1972’s Last Days and Time.
Raise! would be the final EWF album to be released on ARC. The label would be discontinued by Columbia Records the following year.The end was near for Earth, Wind & Fire. Raise! wasn’t quite the disaster it was made out to be at the time, but it was their least distinguished overall album since the early days on Warner Bros., with the exception of their participation in the awful Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band film soundtrack in 1978. “Let’s Groove” was just a recycled mid-tempo tune from the mid-’70s, and everything else sounded desultory and uninspired. It was no surprise that after two more albums Maurice White and Company decided to take some time away from the scene. –AllMusic Review by William Ruhlmann