Name: Faces
Brand: Columbia (USA)
SKU: 295979
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Performer Notes

Earth, Wind & Fire: Maurice White, Philip Bailey (vocals, percussion): Johnny Graham (guitar); Andrew Woolfolk (tenor saxophone); Don Myrick (saxophone); Rahmlee Michael Davis (trumpet, flugelhorn); Louis Satterfield (trombone); Larry Dunn (piano, keyboards, synthesizers); Verdine White (bass); Fred White (drums, percussion); Ralph Johnson (percussion).
Additional personnel includes: Johnny Graham, Steve Lukather (guitar); Janice Gower, Harris Goldman, Assa Dorri (violin); Rollice Dale (viola); Ronald Cooper (cello); Dorothy Jean Ashby (harp); Lawrence Williams (saxophone); Jerry Hey, Oscar Brashear, Chuck Findley (trumpet); Vincent DeRosa (French horn); John Johnson (tuba); David Foster, Gerry Glenn, Jerry Peters (keyboards); Paulinho Da Costa (percussion).
Recorded at George Massenburg Studios, West Los Angeles, California in 1980.
Personnel: Maurice White (vocals, drums, kalimba, background vocals); Philip Bailey (vocals, congas, percussion, background vocals); Verdine White (vocals); Al McKay (guitar, percussion); Johnny Graham, Steve Lukather, Marlo Henderson (guitar); Dorothy Ashby (harp); Shari Zippert (violin, viola); Assa Drori, Don Palmer, Jack Gootkin, Jerome Reisler, John Wittenberg, Harris Goldman, Ronald Folsom, Marvin Limonick, Michael Nowak , Glenn Dicterow, Mike Nowack, Mari Tsumura-Botnick, Arkady Shindelman, Joy Lyle, Reginald Hill, Karen Jones , Harold Dicterow, Bobby Dubow, Mary Debra Lundquist, Norman Carr, Vicki Sylvester, Joseph Goodman, Josef Schoenbrun, Henry Ferber, Gina Kronstadt, Robert Jung, Jerome Webster, Irving Giller, Henry Roth, Sid Sharp, Bernard Kundell, Robert Lipsett, Pavel Farkas, Isabelle Daskoff, Sid Page, Sidney Sharp, William Henderson , Janet Lakatos, Sheldon Sanov, Barry Socher, Janice Gower, Michael Markman, William Kurash, Ronald Clark, Mark Cargill, Endre Granat, Haim Shtrum (violin); David Schwartz , Laury Woods, Patricia M. Mathews, Leena Sherman, Barbara Thomason, Gareth "Garry" Nuttycombe, Rollice Dale, Harry Hyams, Hershel Wise, James Ross , Sherman Bryana, Ron Strauss, Marilyn Baker, Allan Harshman, Roland Kato, Renita Koven, Brenton Banks (viola); Dennis Karmazyn, Nina Deveritch, Albert Gill, Raymond Kelly, Ronald Cooper, Louise Zeyen, Jacqueline Lustgarten, Marsden Smith, Ray Kelley, Earl Madison, Nils Oliver, Miguel Martinez, Larry Corbett, Frederick Seykora (cello); Larry Williams (flute, saxophone, wind); Fred Jackson, Jr. (flute, saxophone); Don Myrick (saxophone, alto saxophone, tenor saxophone, baritone saxophone); Andrew Woolfolk (tenor saxophone, wind); Rahmlee Michael Davis (trumpet, flugelhorn); Chuck Findley, Gary Grant, Jerry Hey, Michael Harris, Nolan Andrew Smith, Oscar Brashear, Steve Madaio, Bobby Bryant (trumpet); Arthur Maebe, Marilyn Robinson, George Price, Alan Robinson , Vincent DeRosa (French horn, horns); George Bohannon, Fred Wesley, Jeff Clayton , Louis Satterfield, William Frank "Bill" Reichenbach Jr. (trombone); John Johnson , John Thomas Johnson (tuba); Larry Dunn (piano, keyboards, synthesizer, programming); Jerry Peters (organ, keyboards); Garry Glenn, David Foster (keyboards); Fred White , Ralph Johnson (drums, percussion); Paulinho Da Costa (percussion); Gary Coleman (bells).
Audio Mixers: George Massenburg; Jeff Borgeson; George Morgan ; Royce Hall; Ken Fowler; Bob Wolstein; Ray Gonzales; Ernie Sheesley; Ron Pendragon; Steve Jackson .
Liner Note Author: Maurice White.
Recording information: ARC, West Los Angeles, CA (09/1980); George Massenburg Studios, Los Angeles, CA (09/1980).
Illustrator: Kevin Lyman.
Photographers: Jim Shea; Bruce Talamon.
Arrangers: Tom Tom 84; Erich Bulling; James Newton Howard; Jerry Hey; Jerry Peters; David Foster.
Although they were catching more flak from critics for an alleged obsession with sociopolitical commentary and quasi-mystical references, R&B audiences hadn't yet tired of Earth, Wind & Fire. While this album admittedly had less memorable material and was more dependent on what had become standard production and stock devices, it still landed plenty of hits on the charts. ~ Ron Wynn

Professional Reviews

Record Collector (magazine) (p.82) - 3 stars out of 5 -- "[FACES] mixes stellar songwriting with polished pop-tinged funk..."

Album: Faces
#	Song Title	Time
1)	Let Me Talk
2)	Turn It into Something Good
3)	Pride
4)	You
5)	Sparkle
6)	Back on the Road
7)	Song in My Heart
8)	You Went Away
9)	And Love Goes On
10)	Sailaway
11)	Take It to the Sky
12)	Win or Lose
13)	Share Your Love
14)	In Time
15)	Faces

Album: Faces
#	Song Title	Time
1)	Let Me Talk
2)	Turn It into Something Good
3)	Pride
4)	You
5)	Sparkle
6)	Back on the Road
7)	Song in My Heart
8)	You Went Away
9)	And Love Goes On
10)	Sailaway
11)	Take It to the Sky
12)	Win or Lose
13)	Share Your Love
14)	In Time
15)	Faces