Father’s Children – Dirt and Grime
Sometimes I get things so far in advance it slips my mind to post on them when they’ve actually been released and they are available for consumption by y’all more widely. This fantastic collection of music from DC’s Father’s Children got to me a cool two months before it was released early in the summer. Who’s Gonna Save The World features music recorded for a debut release around 1972, but most of it, save a 7″ or two, has been unreleased until now. All we’d previously had of Father’s Children was a 1979 “debut” on Mercury that is in that beautiful in-between disco/boogie sound. The music on this collection hits hard, is super righteous and sounds almost like a totally different group. Super-duper case in point is my favorite track, “Dirt & Grime,” which I’ve played several times, as well as a couple of other tracks, on Melting Pot. It’s a fascinating slice of early 1970s socially conscious ghetto funk, just the kind of thing you would expect to show up in a RZA production. Numero strikes again…