Title: Earth, Wind & Fire - That's The Way Of The World
Year/Genre/Sub-Genre/City: 1975, Soul, Jazz-Funk, Chicago
Matrix #: PC 33280
Condition: EX, sounds great, looks good, some light marks
Cultural Facts:
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Personal Struggle Maurice White grew up between segregated Memphis and working-class Chicago, and that search for dignity and uplift stayed central to his vision.
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Scene Ecology Before this breakthrough, White came through the Chicago session world at Chess/Cadet and Ramsey Lewis’s circle, giving the band unusual arranging discipline.
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Media Narrative The album was tied to a same-name film that flopped, but the soundtrack outlived the movie and became Earth, Wind & Fire’s real breakthrough.
4/4/2026 CC
