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Key & Cleary Love Is The Way

Now-Again | Item No: 622347
2CD | 2018 / US – Original | New
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Item Description
Drum-machine soul, funk, disco and boogie from Buffalo, NYC. Rare 7” singles
and previously unreleased tracks presented as an album for the first time.
In the early ’70s, Jessie Key and Sylvester Cleary – two passionate idealists living in Buffalo, New York – 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 – brought against the City of Buffalo for creating and
maintaining a racially segregated school system – 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, “A Man,” a paean to self-actualization and Black
American empowerment, which they custom pressed and issued privately.
Dozens of recordings followed over a decade long span, issued on local labels and warehoused on cassette
tapes. Perennial optimists, Key & Cleary tried any – perhaps every! – path they could demarcate in hopes of
forwarding their agenda of self-effected, positive change. They formed Buffalo’s first minority-owned construction
company, opened a health food restaurant in a building previously occupied by a fast food chain, and even
concocted a candy bar called “The Buffalo Treat,” which they manufactured and sold locally. Eventually they
started their own label, Buffalo’s Reflection. On it they released their masterpiece, “What It Takes To Live,” a
sought-after disco and Northern Soul classic, which previously appeared on Now-Again’s Soul Cal anthology.
This album collates the breadth of Key & Cleary’s recordings from 1970 until the mid 1980s, both the songs
issued on rare 7” singles and previously unreleased. It presents a conjoined musical vision and tells the story of
a duo years ahead of their time, both musically and culturally. Love Is The Way was their ethos – their goal was
to enlighten humanity and to bend history in a more loving direction through communion.
Item Details
Item No: 622347
Artist: Key & Cleary
Title: Love Is The Way
Label: Now-Again
Catalog No: NA5172-CD
Format: 2CD, CD
Pressing: US – Original
Release Date: 2018
Genre: Organic Grooves
Style: Funk | Soul
Available since: 2019-01-17
Condition: New
Price: $ 19.07 $ 9.54
Weight: 200g (plus 250g Packaging)
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Tracklist
01 A Man
02 There Are Troubles
03 Turn Me On
04 Since I Lost Your Love
05 Dog's Delight
06 The Secret
07 Young People
08 Lay Your Head
09 Salamanca
10 Storm Of 77
11 Help Build Buffalo
01 What It Takes To Live
02 To Love
03 (I've Learned Now) What It Takes To Live
04 Love Is The Way
05 Video
06 Dunkirk Ice Cream
07 Had Your Love
08 Interlude
09 Help Build Buffalo
10 Drum Solo
11 May 1977 Car Conversation
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