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George Clinton was still wearing sharkskin when this Detroit quartet with the gangsta name (originally Black Murder) started freaking out in 1968, dunking its funk in acid-rock guitar and voodoo-doo-wop vocals. Black Merda (1970) and Long Burn the Fire (1972) -- the first issued by Chess, both on this CD -- suffered from misguided production, but the psychedelia is sturdy and dirty. "Cynthy-Ruth" and the title groove slink and seethe like the Meters locked in a Motor City garage in the dead of winter.
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Track List
- Prophet
- Think of Me
- Cynthy-Ruth
- Over and Over
- Ashamed
- Reality
- Windsong
- Good Luck
- That's the Way It Goes
- I Don't Want to Die
- Set Me Free
- For You
- Folks from Mother's Mixer
- My Mistake
- Lying
- Long Burn the Fire
- Sometimes I Wish
- I Got a Woman
- We Made Up
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