After reading CrashPryor's posts about James Brown and then the Isley Brothers, I felt like saying something about Black Merda. I'm not really a funk fan, but I got a copy of the Black Merda CD from a friend this summer. They were an obscure band out of Detroit, in the late 1960s. The CD is a reissue of their 2 LPs, which are supposedly hard to find. I bet copies of the LPs are probably sitting...
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Usually linked in with the brief explosion of "black rock" bands that followed Jimi Hendrix in the late '60s and early '70s, Black Merda's formula was a good bit more complicated than most, and their debut album blends elements of hard rock, blues, soul, folk, and embryonic funk with a tough and uncompromising political consciousness that makes the disc at once a product of its time and not qui...
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Black Merda – The Folks From Mother’s Mixer (Street Tuff Tunes)Black Merda are the self-proclaimed "first black rock group," a funky rock combo with a significant debt to Jimi Hendrix, mixing fuzz-toned, psychedelic blues-rock with folky acoustic passages and contemporary late-'60s soul. They recorded two albums (in 1967 and in 1971, the following year, they were linked to another psychedelic
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After reading CrashPryor's posts about James Brown and then the Isley Brothers, I felt like saying something about Black Merda. I'm not really a funk fan, but I got a copy of the Black Merda CD from a friend this summer. They were an obscure band out of Detroit, in the late 1960s. The CD is a reissue of their 2 LPs, which are supposedly hard to find. I bet copies of the LPs are probably sitting...
More >
Usually linked in with the brief explosion of "black rock" bands that followed Jimi Hendrix in the late '60s and early '70s, Black Merda's formula was a good bit more complicated than most, and their debut album blends elements of hard rock, blues, soul, folk, and embryonic funk with a tough and uncompromising political consciousness that makes the disc at once a product of its time and not qui...
More >
Black Merda – The Folks From Mother’s Mixer (Street Tuff Tunes)Black Merda are the self-proclaimed "first black rock group," a funky rock combo with a significant debt to Jimi Hendrix, mixing fuzz-toned, psychedelic blues-rock with folky acoustic passages and contemporary late-'60s soul. They recorded two albums (in 1967 and in 1971, the following year, they were linked to another psychedelic
More >
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| 1 Think of Me |
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| 2 Ashamed |
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| 3 I Got a Woman |
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| 4 For You |
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| 5 I Don't Want to Die |
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