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Average White Band (also AWB) is a Scottish funk and R&B band, who had a series of soul and disco hits between 1974 and 1980. They are best known for their million selling song, "Pick Up the Pieces" and their album Cut the Cake.

The band name was initially proposed by Bonnie Bramlett.

Average White Band, or AWB, introduced funk and soul musical elements into the popular rock 'n' roll idiom, thereby introducing many European and American audiences to music traditionally associated with African American performers and listeners.

The band's ability to expose international white audiences to funk music is credited by some music historians as the beginning of the disco era, in which Western musicians of various races and ethnic backgrounds borrowed rhythmic elements from such African American musicians as James Brown, Stevie Wonder, Sly Stone, Larry Graham, George Clinton, and Bootsy Collins to create a rhythmic dance music that obscured racial cat