ESG - Come Away With ESG

Formed in the late 1970’s in the Bronx, ESG (which stood for “Emerald, Sapphire and Gold”) was a band made up of the four Scroggins sisters: Renee (guitar and vocals), Deborah (bass and vocals), Marie (congas and vocals), and Valerie (drums).

After a couple of EPs, including 1982’s ESG Says Dance to the Beat of Moody (from which a couple tracks here first appeared), they put out their first full-length album in 1983 entitled Come Away With ESG. Pitchfork Media, out of Chicago, ranked it as the 84th greatest album of the 1980’s. Today, we will give it a spin for its thirtieth anniversary.