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01. BETTY DAVIS - If I'm In Luck I Might Get Picked Up
02. BETTY DAVIS - Walkin' Up the Road (CD-only)
03. BETTY DAVIS - Anti Love Song
04. BETTY DAVIS - Your Man My Man
05. BETTY DAVIS - Ooh Yea
06. BETTY DAVIS - Steppin' in Her I. Miller Shoes
07. BETTY DAVIS - Shoo-B-Doop and Cop Him
08. BETTY DAVIS - He Was a Big Freak
09. BETTY DAVIS - Don't Call Her No Tramp
10. BETTY DAVIS - Git in There
11. BETTY DAVIS - They Say I'm Different
12. BETTY DAVIS - 70's Blues
13. BETTY DAVIS - Your Mama Wants Ya Back (CD-only)
14. BETTY DAVIS - Nasty Gal
15. BETTY DAVIS - You and I
16. BETTY DAVIS - F.U.N.K.
17. BETTY DAVIS - Getting, Kicked Off, Havin' Fun
18. BETTY DAVIS - Shut Off the Light
19. BETTY DAVIS - This Is It (CD-only)
ARTIST
TITLE
This Is It!
FORMAT
CD

LABEL
CATALOG #
VAMPI 055CD VAMPI 055CD
GENRE
RELEASE DATE
7/8/2014

2005 release. The former wife of Miles, Betty Mabry Davis is perhaps the only woman in the world who could rightfully have the following legend tattooed across her rear: THIS ASS INVENTED FUSION. While their marriage only lasted a year (1968-1969), Betty pointed the way to Miles, introducing him to the musical and material gods of revolutionary style: Jimi Hendrix and Sly Stone, which would have an enormous impact on his electrified musical Frankenfusion masterpiece known as Bitches Brew. Betty ruled as the mentor-muse for the original man and his music. She was a woman with the strength of a Black Panther, a "nasty" woman in total control, but unfortunately for Betty, America was not yet ready to embrace a woman with such an explicitly sexual persona. She had a much rougher edge to her music than other female funk and soul artists of the '70s. Betty Davis' is one of the most extreme sounding debut records of the decade, which just like Bitches Brew takes equal parts inspiration from Hendrix and Sly. One critic aptly described their sound as something like a cross between Tina Turner, Funkadelic, and Sly & The Family Stone. Add the futurist fashion sense of David Bowie, and the flair of Miles Davis, and you have quite a cocktail. This is the best of Betty Davis' three much-sought albums.