March Wind
“Do the Sweetback” (Stax) 1972
by Wax Poetics
Released in the same year as labelmate Melvin Van Peebles’s epochal Sweet Sweetback soundtrack, March Wind’s lone 45 may have served as a Sweetback-repping cross-promotional effort, or merely as a coincidentally titled dance-floor exhortation. Certainly the minimal lyrics provide few clues. In either case, March Wind gave Stax a minor hit with their kinetic funk burner.
