Mother's Finest - Another Mother Further (1977) [2008, Reissue]
R&B, Funk, Rock | EAC Rip | WavPack (WV), Img+CUE+LOG+Scans (PNG) | 33:11 | 264,84 Mb
Label: Epic/CBS Records, Inc. (USA) | Cat.# EK 34699 | Released: 2008-02-05 (1977)
R&B, Funk, Rock | EAC Rip | WavPack (WV), Img+CUE+LOG+Scans (PNG) | 33:11 | 264,84 Mb
Label: Epic/CBS Records, Inc. (USA) | Cat.# EK 34699 | Released: 2008-02-05 (1977)
"Another Mother Further" is the third full-length studio album by Atlanta funk-rock group Mother's Finest. It was released in 1977 on Epic Records and co-produced by Tom Werman. It managed to chart one single, "Piece of the Rock". "Truth'll Set You Free" was covered by R&B group Labelle on their 2008 album, Back to Now, after Nona Hendryx and Joyce Kennedy performed it on the international Daughters Of Soul tour in 2004.
~Wikipedia
Back in the '70s, when your band's first album was a commercial stiff and your second started off with a cover instead of an original composition, chances were your parent record company had just about lost faith in your ability to crank out a hit. And as easy as it is to make such generalized assumptions a few decades after the fact, this certainly felt like the dilemma facing Southern funk-rockers Mother's Finest upon the release of their sophomore album, Another Mother Further, in 1977. Along with the aforesaid righteously rock-ified cover of the Miracles' Motown standard "Mickey's Monkey" and a faithful "Burning Love" in tribute to the King on this, the year of his passing, Another Mother Further featured a tellingly restrained production that suggested marketing gremlins had by then set up shop inside the studio, bent on commercializing Mother's Finest's sound. Not even they could forestall the band from ripping up the joint with several inspired numbers, however, and even though Glenn Murdock's feisty "Piece of the Rock" didn't fare all that well as the album's first single, mad-funky mid-paced groovers like "Baby Love" (which had a better showing at number 58) and, to a lesser degree, "Truth'll Set You Free" saw his co-lead vocalist and wife, Joyce "Baby Jean" Kennedy, almost burning down the vocal booth. Sadly, the soft rock swing of "Thank You for Your Love" was more suited to the nearest Holiday Inn lounge than the concert stage; the sugary proto-disco of "Dis Go Dis Way, Dis Go Dat Way" was an obvious, inferior copy of the Commodores' "Machine Gun"; and the totally forgettable "Hard Rock Lover" was hardly the sort of end piece to send listeners home with at the album's conclusion. Such mixed rewards would not bode well for Mother's Finest's short-term career health (nor the long term, come to think of it), as neither their label nor consumers appeared capable of coping with so much sonic diversity, and the situation would only become exacerbated by 1978's ensuing Mother Factor LP.
~Review by Eduardo Rivadavia
Release of this album: 1977 [LP Epic Records, Cat.# PE 34699, USA]
Release of this CD: 2008, February, 5 [CD Epic/CBS Records, Inc. (USA), Cat.# EK 34699 / UPC: 886972329826]
©℗ 1977 CBS Records, Inc.
Manufactured by Epic Records/CBS Records, Inc.
Printed in U.S.A.
Credits:
Arranged By – Mother's Finest
Artwork [Cover Art] – Nick Fasciano
Bass, Backing Vocals – Wizzard
Design [Cover Design] – John Berg
Drums – "B B Queen" Borden
Effects [Special] – Jack Adams
Engineer [Sound Reinforcement Engineer] – Barry Burnett
Guitar – Moses Mo
Keyboards – Mike
Lead Vocals, Backing Vocals – Glenn Bailey Murdock III, Joyce "Baby Jean" Kennedy
Management – Hugh Rodgers
Mixed By – Milan Bogdan, Tony Reale
Percussion [Additional] – Joe LaLa, Raymond, Tom Werman
Photography By [Cover Photo] – Don Hunstein
Producer – Mother's Finest, Tom Werman
Recorded By – Milan Bogdan
Technician [Audio] – Rich Adams
Tracklist:
01. Mickey's Monkey (04:45)
(Lamont Dozier, Brian Holland, Eddie Holland)
02. Baby Love (04:25)
(B. Borden, M. Keck, J. Kennedy, G. Moore, G. Murdock, J. Seay)
03. Thank You For The Love (05:04)
(B. Borden, M. Keck, J. Kennedy, G. Moore, G. Murdock, J. Seay)
04. Piece Of The Rock (03:25)
(B. Borden, M. Keck, J. Kennedy, G. Moore, G. Murdock, J. Seay)
05. Truth'll Set You Free (04:23)
(B. Borden, M. Keck, J. Kennedy, G. Moore, G. Murdock, J. Seay)
06. Burning Love (04:11)
(Dennis Linde)
07. Dis Go Dis Way, Dis Go Dat Way (04:15)
(B. Borden, M. Keck, J. Kennedy, G. Moore, G. Murdock, J. Seay)
08. Hard Rock Lover (02:43)
(B. Borden, M. Keck, J. Kennedy, G. Moore, G. Murdock, J. Seay)
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Analyzed: Mother's Finest / Another Mother Further
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