LIGHT IN THE ATTIC TO RELEASE LOST BETTY DAVIS ALBUM, REISSUE CLASSIC THIRD RECORD

img: New Betty Davis poster available at lightintheattic.net

We have previously reported the upcoming release of Betty Davis' unreleased album 'Is It Love Or Desire'. That album will now be joined by a deluxe re-release of her 1975 album 'Nasty Gal'. See below for all the details:

On October 6th Light In The Attic Records will release the never before
heard (and never bootlegged) lost album Is It Love Or Desire, as well as
reissue the classic third release Nasty Gal, by unparalleled funkstress
Betty Davis.

Betty Davis was a musical maverick with a vision. Imagine substance, sex,
and grit combined with a badass band that could deliver the funk bed
backbone to the sultry music between the sheets.

Ahead of it's time in 1975, Davis' unapologetically uncompromising,
self-referential album Nasty Gal showed her digging deeper into her
musical and cultural expression that ever before. Riding high with a new
record label, a series of high profile relationships, and an intensely
sexualized live performance, Davis was poised to take the world by storm.
From the title tracks mutant groove to the ballad co-written by one-time
husband Miles Davis, Nasty Gal is Hendrix and Sly Stone inspired funk-rock
at it's finest.

Is It Love Or Desire (1976), on the other hand, is a little known gem in
the Davis catalog. After cutting Nasty Gal for Island Records, Davis
recorded her most personal and expressive record to date at Louisiana's
remote Studio In The Country. Unfortunately a creative difference with the
label caused the record to be unexpectedly shelved and was never released
to the public. Now, thirty-plus years later, Light In The Attic is proud
to announce that Betty Davis' time has arrived!

Both mastered from the original tapes, Is It Love Or Desire features
detailed liner notes by Oliver Wang (Soul Sides), the originally intended
risqué artwork housed in a lavishly packaged digipak, rare photos,
archival material, and recent interviews with Davis and her skin-tight
band Funk House; while the Nasty Gal re-release features new liner notes
by John Ballon (Wax Poetics 2007 Davis cover story), original album art,
complete lyrics, rare photos, and interviews, all housed in a beautiful
foil-stamped digipak.

These releases cement this bold soul sister's undeniable contributions to
music and popular culture. Long live Betty Davis!