Betty DavisCrashin' from Passion (Transparent Red Vinyl)

Raw, slinky funk that struts and smolders. Betty Davis snarls and coos over greasy bass and horn stabs, decades ahead of the room she cut this in. 'Quintessence of Hip' opens with a strut you feel in your hips; the title track, 'Crashin' From Passion,' burns slow and low. She recorded it in 1979, then watched it sit on a shelf for sixteen years before anyone heard it. Turn it up loud and let it sweat.