Artist: Blackbyrds
Title: Cornbread, Earl & Me (Original Soundtrack)
Year: 1975
Label: Fantasy
Format: Vinyl LP (Original)
Flwrpt Rating of this Record: 4.25/5.0
Review
I have had this record for a while now, but didn’t get deep into it until one night while watching the DVD (courtesy of Latia), I noticed that the movie had a pretty nice score! I told her, as we watched the film, “Bay I’ve got this record…but I don’t remember it sounding this good!”, I couldn’t wait to give it a second listen.
The second time around listening to the record, after seeing the movie obviously, I fell in love with it. Honestly, it’s a different sound for the Blackbyrds, a sound that I wasn’t expecting on my initial listen. But it’s great, it’s refreshing, and the vibe definitely fit with the feeling and the plot of the movie.
There is so much great material on this LP, I decided to post tons of clips! Enjoy…
PS: Go buy this movie, it’s really good! (For what it is). Also, this is Lawrence Fishburne’s first movie, he was like 12 years old or so. But whatever you do, don’t read the back of the cover like my girlfriend did, the back cover spoils the entire film, lol! (Plain ol’ bad descriptive writing)
Check out the sound!
Cornbread
Wilford’s Gone
The Gym Fight
Mother/Son Talk
Riot
Candy Store Dilemma
At The Carnival
Check out the vid!
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Design
It’s a soundtrack cover, with no concept or theme…other than being urban. Not much to say here, it’s pretty generic. However, I DO like the frilly type on the cover. The photography is pretty bad though.
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Hey Darien! How you been??? I’m digging the site! Are the covers your designs? Keep in touch!
nina
Darien!
So this is crazy right cuz last year, I went to this event for this dude was apparently the first graf artist in Philly and his tag was “Cornbread”. So he was talkin bout how Hollywood cats came to him and his boy about making a movie based on them called “Cornbread and Me”, but then the movie deal feel through and they were salty. Some years go by and BANG! Cornbread and Me is released in theaters! So this dude claims to be the “ORIGINAL” Cornbread is still visibly salty over Hollywood stealing their story and the obvious lack of royalties.
What say you?!
LOL!
I don’t know Marly, Hollywood can be kinda grimey, but this movie has nothing to do with graffiti artists, instead they’re dealing with a young basketball player from the ghetto.
Plus it’s a blaxploitation film, I don’t think they need to steal story ideas HAHAHA!!!
But who knows what happened, this flick dropped in 1975…anything could be true or false.
Thanks for sharing that story Marly!…it’s interesting…
Peace.
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