Rare Earth-In Concert (1971)

Despite having a label with their name, Rare Earth were always strangers within Motown, a group of whites who made versions of classic black music with an added rock component. However, the records they made between 1969 and 1971 are authentic jewels of rock music and particularly, the album In Concert, the best live album released by the Motown label.
Many think that the two published versions of "Get Ready", a classic of Smokey Robinson, are recorded live, but the public that is heard in his second work was added later, on a recording made in studio. It is in In Concert where we can listen to Rare Earth totally live, in performances recorded in different parts of the United States, from Florida to New York. Perhaps the studio version is a little more complex and elaborate, but it is here where you can appreciate all the authenticity and all the know-how of one of the best bands of the early 1970s. It is an incredibly well recorded album and with musicians capable of improvising to unsuspected extremes on songs so many times covered as "What'd I Say" or "(I Know) I'm Losing You", "Get Ready", etc. The passage of time has not deprived this work of any of its virtues or of the freshness that it had at the time when it was played in discotheques around the world, and that is that good music is above fashion.