Free Your Mind: The 700 West Sessions

Now-Again Records had a remarkable knack for finding bands that only released a couple singles in their time and discovering that they had at least a full album’s worth of tunes stashed away somewhere. A couple years after doing the same for fellow Indianapolis-based LAMP labelmates Ebony Rhythm Band, Now-Again reassembled a chunk of Amnesty’s scarce recorded-yet-unreleased output around a core of songs from a string of studio sessions and demos cut in 1973, revealing the full potential of a band that could pull off ambitious prog-soul suites (“Can I Help You?”) short-and-tight funk jams (“Love Fades”), and piercing harmonic balladry (“We Have Love”) with equal fire.