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Mutha's Nature by James Brown

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On Mutha's Nature, James Brown returned to a bass-heavy groove sound with a new J.B.'s band, which made for a funkier result than on recent albums, but he still wasn't coming up with slogans to match those of old -- "Give Me Some Skin" and "If You Don't Give a Dogone About It" just didn't rank with "Say It Loud, I'm Black and I'm Proud." And given that Brown largely buried his vocals in the mix, it wouldn't have been easy to tell if he did have something to say. (One time you could hear him, though, was on a cover of Gershwin's "Summertime" that Brown rewrote into a vaguely religious/environmentalist message song.) Brown hadn't been humbled by his recent lack of commercial success: "the King, as you've named me, has come back to set our musical record straight again like Beethoven, Bach, Brahms, and now Brown," he wrote in his liner notes. But the accomplishments didn't match the rhetoric.

© William Ruhlmann /TiVo

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1
Give Me Some Skin (Album Version)
00:03:57

JAMES BROWN, Producer, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist, RecordingArranger

℗ 1977 UMG Recordings, Inc.

2
People Who Criticize
00:04:27

Charles Sherrell, RecordingArranger - JAMES BROWN, Producer, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist - Bruce Albertine, Engineer - Flower, ComposerLyricist

℗ 1977 UMG Recordings, Inc.

3
Have A Happy Day
00:04:14

Charles Sherrell, ComposerLyricist - JAMES BROWN, Producer, MainArtist

℗ 1977 Universal Records, a Division of UMG Recordings, Inc.

4
Bessie (Album Version)
00:03:23

Charles Sherrell, ComposerLyricist - JAMES BROWN, Producer, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist, RecordingArranger - Johnny Griggs, ComposerLyricist - St. Clair Pinckney, ComposerLyricist - Melvin Parker, ComposerLyricist

℗ 1977 UMG Recordings, Inc.

5
If You Don't Give A Dogone About It
00:06:30

Charles Sherrell, RecordingArranger - JAMES BROWN, Producer, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist, RecordingArranger - Deanna Brown, ComposerLyricist

℗ 1977 Universal Records, a Division of UMG Recordings, Inc.

6
Summertime
00:05:29

Charles Sherrell, RecordingArranger - JAMES BROWN, Producer, MainArtist, RecordingArranger - George Gershwin, Composer - Dubose Heyward, Lyricist

℗ 1977 Universal Records, a Division of UMG Recordings, Inc.

7
People Wake Up And Live
00:03:31

JAMES BROWN, Producer, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist

℗ 1977 Universal Records, a Division of UMG Recordings, Inc.

8
Take Me Higher And Groove Me
00:05:01

JAMES BROWN, Producer, MainArtist - Deidra Brown, ComposerLyricist - Deanna Brown, ComposerLyricist

℗ 1977 Universal Records, a Division of UMG Recordings, Inc.

Review: Mutha's Nature - James Brown

On Mutha's Nature, James Brown returned to a bass-heavy groove sound with a new J.B.'s band, which made for a funkier result than on recent albums, but he still wasn't coming up with slogans to match those of old -- "Give Me Some Skin" and "If You Don't Give a Dogone About It" just didn't rank with "Say It Loud, I'm Black and I'm Proud." And given that Brown largely buried his vocals in the mix, it wouldn't have been easy to tell if he did have something to say. (One time you could hear him, though, was on a cover of Gershwin's "Summertime" that Brown rewrote into a vaguely religious/environmentalist message song.) Brown hadn't been humbled by his recent lack of commercial success: "the King, as you've named me, has come back to set our musical record straight again like Beethoven, Bach, Brahms, and now Brown," he wrote in his liner notes. But the accomplishments didn't match the rhetoric.

© William Ruhlmann /TiVo

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© 1977 Universal Records, a Division of UMG Recordings, Inc. ℗ 1977 Universal Records, a Division of UMG Recordings, Inc.

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