• 1. Afrodesia
      • 2. Spirits Free
      • 3. Straight To The Point
      • 4. Favors
      • 5. The Awakening

      Classic Jazz / Jazz-funk album from '75, reissued on Mr Bongo, originally on Sonny Lester's Groove Merchant.

      George Benson on guitar credited as 'Compliments Of A Friend', presumed to be because of contractual reasons.

      Other Releases by Lonnie Smith

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        Lonnie SmithWhen The Night Is Right! (1980)Chiaroscuro Records
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        • – Move Your Hand

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                        • – A Beleza É Você Menina
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                        • – Witness The Whiteness
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                        • – Magnolia
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                        • – Little B's Poem
                        • – Raindrops Keep Fallin' On My Head
                        • – Love From The Sun
                        • – People Make The World Go Round
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                        • – Woah
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                        • – Visions Of You
                        • – Eyes
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                        • – Symbols Of Transformation II
                        • – Living Water Assembly
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                        • – Keep It Movin'
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                        • – Wayside
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