Tower of Power Premieres 'Step Up' Album on 50th Anniversary

billboard.com:

If Tower of Power's new Step Up -- premiering exclusively below in front of its March 20 release -- sounds cut from the same cloth as 2018's Soul Side of Town, there's good reason for that.

The 14 tracks were recorded with producer Joe Vannelli (Gino's brother) during the same sessions as its predecessor, which also marked ToP's 50th anniversary.

Step Up is even subtitled The Soul Side of Town: Volume Two. "We worked on both of these records for a long time," co-founder and saxophonist Emilio Castillo tells Billboard. "The whole time I was like, 'Oh, man, I wish I could just play this for people already.' It was, like, two years before we got it all completed and ready to come out.