Charles Stepney-"Step On Step" [now available-International Anthem]

**Motown Eddie** · 09-10-2022, 05:17 AM

Chicago-born composer, producer and arranger Charles Stepney is known to some for his work with Earth, Wind & Fire, Deniece Williams, Ramsey Lewis, Rotary Connection, Minnie Riperton, Muddy Waters, Howlin Wolf, Terry Callier, and many more. In the decades since his untimely death in 1976, the presence of his name in liner notes has become a seal of quality for record collectors, while his sound has been sampled extensively by artists such as Kanye West, A Tribe Called Quest, The Fugees, MF Doom, and Madlib. Step on Step - which comes almost 50 years after Stepney's passing - is the enigmatic producer's eponymous debut album. It's an album full of creative compositional seedlings - originally written, performed, and recorded by Stepney in the basement of his home in Chicago, between the late 1960s and early 1970s, using just primitive drum machines, early-gen Moog synthesizers, pianos, vibraphones, and a few other instrumental accessories.

1	Roll Tape
2	Gimme Some Sugar
3	Daddy's Diddies
4	Gotta Dig It to Dig It
5	No Credit for This
6	Roadtrip
7	On Your Face
8	That's the Way of the World
9	Imagination
10	In the Basement
11	Business
12	Look B4U Leap
13	Around the House
14	Funky Sci-Fi
15	Mini Mugg
16	Chicago Independent
17	Surround Stereo
18	Black Gold
19	Denim Groove
20	Notes from Dad
21	Rubie & Charles
22	Greatness
23	Step on Step