Lou Bond

Why Must Our Eyes Always Be Turned Backwards

1974 · We Produce XPS-1904 · USA

Artist
Lou Bond
Title
Why Must Our Eyes Always Be Turned Backwards
Release
Lou Bond
Year
1974
Label
We Produce # XPS-1904
Format
LP · Album
Language
English
Country
USA
Genre
Soul, Gospel & Funk · R&B
Primary theme
Post-War

About the artist

Lou Bond (real name Ronald Edward Lewis) was an American soul singer-songwriter who worked in Chicago and Memphis, recording for Chess and Fontana in the 1960s before being taken up at Stax Records' We Produce subsidiary by the producers Tom Nixon and Jo Bridges. His sole album, the self-titled 'Lou Bond', was issued on We Produce XPS-1904 in 1974, an orchestral Memphis soul record of protest ballads that was ignored on release and has since been much reissued, most prominently by Light in the Attic in 2010. "Why Must Our Eyes Always Be Turned Backwards" is the second track on side A, between…

Themes

Anti-War