James Brown - It's A MotherLabel: Anagram Elemental Reissued 7 4 2025, Originally released 1969 It's a Mother, released in August 1969, goes far beyond soul: it anticipates the deeper funk to come. It features the monster two part single, "Mother Popcorn," a #1 R&B and #11 Pop hit and one of the last of the classic Pee Wee Ellis arrangements for James Brown. The album peaked at #3 on the Billboard R&B Soul LP chart and #26 on the Billboard 200. Decades later, it's sequence of

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Sonny Clark was the quintessential hard bop pianist

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Riddles Everywhere

plus Todd sings

Includes lyric sheet/inner sleeve

"It doesn't get more blasphemous than this

Fat White Family and Shame

Creativity has never been lacking and sometimes complete with a burst of originality

collects the band’s three studio albums and a previously unreleased 2001 Peel Session

an auditory journey through the band's evolution

"Creepies" (Instrumental)