14 March 2009
BLACK MERDA: Force Of Nature – 2009 – Album review
BLACK MERDA: Force Of Nature – 2009 – Album review
HIGHLIGHTS: Let Go - Take A Little Time - Get On The Same Road - Stop The War
SOUNDBITE: “Now if it’s funky rock n roll and the music soothes your soul/ Lay your head on back and let it go”
RATING: 3.5/5
What do you mean you’ve never heard of Black Merda? These boys were doing the funk in Baghdad before you were in your dad’s bag. Well, I say Baghdad, Detroit would be nearer the mark. Starting out as a RnB (in the original sense) band in the mid-sixties they caught wind of what Hendrix was up to and, without losing any soul over it, jettisoned their horn section and turned the guitar amp up to eleven lending their claim to be the first ever black rock band some authority – sorry Bad Brains, Living Colour and Fishbone. And it’s a very funky kind of rock, think the sort of thing Band Of Gypsys might have done if they’d ever recorded a studio LP
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