MOTHER’S FINEST: Another Mother Further LP 1977 Promo Capitol, mint vinyl. Check 12 edited minutes (every song) and a video review of the album. Gary Moore (!) additional guitars

Description

Mother Finest is a funk rock band founded in Atlanta, Georgia by Joyce Kennedy and Glenn Murdock in the early 1970s

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YEAR: 1977
LABEL: EPIC
Initial version with the orange Epic targetlabels.
℗ 1978 CBS Inc./© 1978 CBS Inc.
Printed in England
Label: Epic – EPC 82037
Format: Vinyl, LP, Album
Country: UK
Released: 1978
Genre: Rock, Funk / Soul
Style: Pop Rock, Free Funk

“”Another Mother Further”” is the third full-length studio album by Atlanta funk-rock group Mother Finest. It was released in 1977 on Epic Records, and was co-produced by Tom Werman. It managed to chart one single, “”Piece Of The Rock””.

Back in the ’70s, when your band 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 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 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 Finest sound. Not even they could forestall the band from ripping up the joint with several inspired numbers, however, and even though Glenn Murdock feisty “”Piece of the Rock”” didn’t fare all that well as the album 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 conclusion. Such mixed rewards would not bode well for Mother Finest 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 ensuing Mother Factor LP.

“”Mickey Monkey”” (Lamont Dozier, Brian Holland, Eddie Holland) – 4:42    <———- Motown cover …..(Smokey Robinson & the Miracles)
“”Baby Love”” – 4:23
“”Thank You For The Love”” – 5:04
“”Piece Of The Rock”” – 3:23
“”Truth’ll Set You Free“” – 4:23
“”Burning Love“” (Dennis Linde) – 4:11
“”Dis Go Dis Way, Dis Go Dat Way“” – 4:14
“”Hard Rock Lover”” – 3:43

Duration   34:03
All Songs Written By Mother Finest, except where noted.

Jean Kennedy – lead & backing vocal, percussion
Joyce Kennedy – lead & backing vocal, percussion
Glenn Murdock – lead & backing vocal
Mo Moses – guitars
Mike Keck – keyboards, synthesizers, additional percussion
Jerry “”Wizzard”” Seay – bass, drums, percussion
Barry “”B.B. Queen”” Borden – drums, percussion

Additional musicians
Joe Lala, “”Raymond””, Tom Werman – additional percussion
Gary Moore – additional guitars

Mother’s Finest put out some of the best music that many never heard in the mid-to-late 70s. Based in the Atlanta area, their music is rock with a strong soul influence that was somewhat reminiscent of Sly and the Family Stone. But whereas the earlier band worked from a more traditional r&b instrumental base – horns, chugga chugga rhythm based guitar, gospel-tinged Hammond organ – MF was a hard rock band: slashing guitars with soaring leads and synthesizer-heavy keyboards.

The best MF songs are classics that never grow old. However, writing was never their strong suit. Whereas Sly & the Family Stone bridged their multi-racial audiences through an extended series of hit singles, MF’s following never rose above cult status and their rousing live shows were mainly limited to the club circuit or opening for other acts.

“Another Mother Further” is top heavy, with most of the best tracks in the first half, although none of it is bad by any means. If you are new to the band, “Not Yer Mothers Funk” provides a good overview of the band’s 70s material, adding other great songs to *most* of the best ones from this CD. But “Another Mother Further” is a must-have for MF fans.