Laced with achingly lush soul ballads as well as funky, Five Stairsteps-esque dance numbers, If This World demonstrates Bob and Gene’s mature songwriting and vocal prowess. With lyrics surely aimed at a “special someone” as well as their ailing community, the twelve songs here are pleas for love and hope during a time when hatred and despair wrapped Buffalo’s bleak horizon.

Still involved in the music business today, Bobby Nunn would eventually leave Buffalo, settle in California and work with folks such as Rick James. Gene Coplin still lives in Buffalo and is a practicing minister. The two remain friends and feel lucky to have had an environment like Mo Do to call home.