Heavy, heavy funk from the iron age
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I can imagine a time (maybe around 1981) that, if had found and heard the Atlanta born funk band Mother's Finest's final set "Iron Age" ...why sliced bread just might've been replaced. I know that cover has popped up in numerous crate digging excursions, but it never got selected. Too bad.
I mean, dig this track "Time". The T. Rexish opening groove grows into a funky lament, and vocalist "Baby Jean" Kennedy lays a seriously heavy wail on the hands of the clockmaker.
A nice groove, but I can only imagine how my circle would have regarded it amid the fading disco and rapidly multipying big hairbands at the genesis.
Hot fun in the summertime!
The set spawned a UK hit with "Movin On" as well.
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Comments (15)
Great track. I had not heard this one or seen this album from them, so this is a great addition to MOG. :)
they do their mother's proud!
I'm diggin that trex groove thing happenin
I like, I like
got-damn my brother
back in the day 77ish till about 85 i saw this band about 20 times...at least
THIS is what started it all
for the PIMP anyways
and to paraphrase all music guide
Georgia funk rock band Mother's Finest might appear to be only a blip on the radar screen of rock history, but not to any of the headlining bands they've stolen shows from -- or any of the audiences who saw it happen. Following in the footsteps of the racially-mixed Sly & the Family Stone, Mother's Finest blended white guitarist Moses Mo and drummer B.B. "Queen" Borden with black vocalists Joyce Kennedy and Glenn Murdock, bassist Wyzard, and keyboardist Mike, for its 1976 self-titled debut album. Tracks like "Rain" and the slightly controversial "Niggazz Can't Sing Rock & Roll" made enough of a ripple to get the band out of Georgia clubs and into regional touring. The follow-up album Another Mother Further lived up to its title. The opening track was a cover of the Holland-Dozier-Holland songwriting team's "Mickey's Monkey," made popular by Smokey Robinson. But the guitar riff was a blatant copy of Jimmy Page's from the Led Zeppelin song "Custard Pie," released two years earlier. Perhaps because the song was a cover, or the fact that they stole from blues legends early in their career, Led Zeppelin never sued and the track (along with others like "Piece of the Rock" and "Hard Rock Lover") helped make Another Mother Further the group's springboard.
i saw em blow MANY a damn band off the stage.
make damned sure to get a piece of dat RAWK....
by the way they still tour and made SEVERAL lp's after the one you posted
but that was the height of their "record sellin" popularity
and their live lp is NOT to be missed
whoops
well they have not toured since 04 me thinks
yeay yeah Rx! made me sorry I'd never tuned into them before!!
bang-a-gong, inrum!!
got-damn my PIMPY! you done PIMPed my post good!! I waz thinkin 'bout this bein' your neck of the woods, thanks for adding all that magnanimosity up there!! diggin' that lala player man!
glad you be diggin it....
Ain't heard 'em in a dawg's age! Thanks, guys!
oh yeah
whilest i be thinkin bout it
Another Mutha Further
Mother's Finest
I never really "got" them back when I first listened in the late 80's..then I actually worked a record of theirs a few years back. Thanks pimp, I thiink it is time for a revisit, but I wish I had seen 'em live in the heyday..it seems like that was their forte.
yup the live thing overshadowed it all
live n groovin'
i gots the live lp too which ALMOST captures the vibe
not quite,but good
we shall get a link for it workin too
Mother's Finest Live
Time to dig up the bone, eh Mike?
Cody B! How ya B? don't try'n change your MOG, you've entered the PIMP zone...
Keep em rollin Keith!
haha PIMPzone...me likey
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