Mother's Finest - Mother's Finest (1972)
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"Love Is All I Need (It's Too Hard to Carry On)" (Jerry Seay, Joyce Kennedy) - 3:44
"You Move Me" (Glenn Murdock, Mike Keck) - 4:01
"You'll Like It 'Hear'" (Keck) 4:35
"Dear Sir and Brother Mann" (Gary Moore, Murdock) - 3:39
"Feelin' Alright" (Dave Mason) - 4:32
"It's What You Do with What You Got" (Jeff Barry, Bobby Bloom) - 3:38
"Sweeten the Air You Breath" (Keck) - 3:09
"You Make Me Feel So Good" (Murdock, Kennedy) - 4:03
"Love the One You're With" (Stephen Stills) - 3:19
Mother's Finest Band Members / Musicians
Joyce "Baby Jean" Kennedy – lead & backing vocals, percussion
Glenn Murdock – lead & backing vocals, percussion
Mike Keck – keyboards, background vocals
Jerry "Wiz" Seay – bass
Gary "Mo" Moore – guitars
Donny Vosburgh - drums
Produced by Hank Medress and Dave Appell
Recorded at Century Sound, New York
Engineered by Bill Radice and thanks to Tom Coleman
Mother's Finest is the official debut album by Atlanta group Mother's Finest. It was released in 1972 on RCA Records, followed by a single, "You Move Me" b/w "Dear Sir And Brother Mann," but neither the album or single made the Billboard charts. The band was disappointed with the album, claiming that RCA added "instrumental sweetening" without their consent. Despite sessions for a second album, they were later dropped by RCA.
Mother's Finest is an American rock band founded in Atlanta, Georgia, by the vocal duo of Joyce "Baby Jean" Kennedy and Glenn "Doc" Murdock in 1970 when the pair met up with guitarist Gary "Moses Mo" Moore and bassist Jerry "Wyzard" Seay. Their music is a blend of funky rhythms, heavy rock guitars and expressive soul/R&B-style vocals.
The group charted with the singles "Fire" (No. 93 Pop Singles), "Baby Love" (No. 79 Black Singles, No. 58 Pop Singles), "Don't Wanna Come Back" (No. 54 Black Singles), "Love Changes" (No. 26 Black Singles), and "Piece of the Rock" in the mid- to late 1970s.
Mother's Finest Band Members / Musicians
Original line-up
Joyce "Baby Jean" Kennedy - vocals and percussion
Glenn "Doc" Murdock – vocals and percussion
Jerry "Wyzard" Seay – bass
Gary "Moses Mo" Moore – guitar
Mike Keck – keyboards
Sanford "Pepe" Daniels - Drums
Classic line-up
Joyce "Baby Jean" Kennedy - vocals
Glenn "Doc" Murdock – vocals
Jerry "Wyzard" Seay – bass
Gary "Moses Mo" Moore – guitar
Mike Keck – keyboards
Barry "B.B. Queen" Borden – drums
1990 Looks Could Kill tour line-up
Joyce "Baby Jean" Kennedy – vocals
Glenn "Doc" Murdock – vocals
Jerry "Wyzard" Seay – bass
Gary "Moses Mo" Moore – guitar
Dion Murdock[20] – drums
T Lavitz – keyboards
1993 world tour line-up
Joyce "Baby Jean" Kennedy – vocals
Glenn "Doc" Murdock – vocals
Jerry "Wyzard" Seay – bass
John "Red Devil" Hayes – guitar
Dion Murdock - drums
Ace Baker – keyboards
2004 line-up
Joyce "Baby Jean" Kennedy – vocals
Glenn "Doc" Murdock – vocals
Jerry "Wyzard" Seay – bass
Gary "Moses Mo" Moore – guitar
John "Red Devil" Hayes – guitar
Kerry "Lovingood" Denton – drums
Johnnetta "JJ" Johnson – percussion & backing vocals
2014 line-up
Joyce "Baby Jean" Kennedy – vocals
Glenn "Doc" Murdock – vocals
Jerry "Wyzard" Seay – bass
Gary "Moses Mo" Moore – guitar
John "Red Devil" Hayes – guitar
Dion Derek Murdock – drums
2018 line-up
Joyce "Baby Jean" Kennedy – vocals
Glenn "Doc" Murdock – vocals
Jerry "Wyzard" Seay – bass
Gary "Moses Mo" Moore – guitar
John "Red Devil" Hayes – guitar
Dion Derek Murdock – drums
Carly Gibson - backing vocals
Sami Michelsen - backing vocals
Current line-up
Joyce "Baby Jean" Kennedy – vocals
Glenn "Doc" Murdock – vocals
Juan Van Dunk – bass
Gary "Moses Mo" Moore – guitar
John "Red Devil" Hayes – guitar
Dion Derek Murdock – drums
Carly Gibson - backing vocals
Sami Michelsen - backing vocals
Mother's Finest Discography Full
Mother's Finest (1972)
Mother's Finest (1976)
Another Mother Further (1977)
Mother Factor (1978)
Live (1979)
Iron Age (1981)
One Mother to Another (1983)
Looks Could Kill (1989)
Subluxation (1990)
Black Radio Won't Play This Record (1992)
Meta-Funk'n Physical (2003)
Right Here, Right Now: Live at Villa Berg (2005)
MF 4D (2011)
Mother's Finest - Live at Rockpalast 1978 & 2003 (2012), MIG
Goody 2 Shoes & The Filthy Beasts (2015), SPV/Steamhammer
Compilations
Rock Your Soul (1996)
The Very Best of Mother's Finest: Not Yer Mother's Funk (1997)
Baby Love (1998)
Definitive Collection (1998)
Burning Love: Best (2000)
Love Changes: The Anthology 1972-1983 (2017)
DVD
Mother's Finest - Live at Rockpalast 1978 & 2003 (2012)
