{"id":28436,"date":"2026-05-19T16:29:05","date_gmt":"2026-05-19T20:29:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/coldfury.com\/wp\/?p=28436"},"modified":"2026-05-19T16:47:32","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T20:47:32","slug":"mothers-finest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coldfury.com\/wp\/mothers-finest\/","title":{"rendered":"Mother&#8217;s Finest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Excellent ATL band, who I was fortunate enough to see open for Da Nuge twice, and Aerosmith (IIRC) once, back in the mid-70s.<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6BcdaRmGtoU?si=O4F9mkbxP3V7u-ft\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Apparently, that Rockpalast appearance was enough all by itself to catapult them <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mother's_Finest\" target=\"blank\">to Euro-stardom<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Mother&#8217;s Finest issued its debut album <em>Mother&#8217;s Finest\u00a0<\/em>in 1972 on RCA; a second album for RCA remained unreleased until it surfaced as bonus tracks on the 2010 Wounded Bird re-issue of\u00a0<em>Mother&#8217;s Finest<\/em>. The group signed a new contract with Epic Records and released its sophomore effort, also titled <em>Mother&#8217;s Finest<\/em>, in 1976, stirring up controversy with the ironic &#8220;Niggizz Can&#8217;t Sang Rock &#8216;n&#8217; Roll&#8221;. Riding a wave of success, the band&#8217;s next three albums, <em>Another Mother Further\u00a0<\/em>(1977),\u00a0<em>Mother Factor\u00a0<\/em>(1978) and\u00a0<em>Mother&#8217;s Finest Live\u00a0<\/em>(1979), all went gold, helped along by heavy touring opening for the likes of Ted Nugent, Black Sabbath, The Who, Aerosmith and AC\/DC.<\/p>\n<p>In 1978, the band set out for Europe and took part in the Rockpalast concert series at the Grugahalle in Essen, produced by Germany&#8217;s WDR television and broadcast to various countries. With only one concert Mother&#8217;s Finest put themselves on the map all over Europe where the band still has a dedicated following. The legendary 1978 show was finally released on CD and DVD in 2012 as <em>Mother&#8217;s Finest \u2013 Live At Rockpalast 1978 &amp; 2003<\/em> which also includes the band&#8217;s 2003 &#8220;Rockpalast&#8221; appearance at Satzvey Castle.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Which, as admirable an achievement as that is, is merely a drop in the bucket when it comes to what these guys have accomplished over the years:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>After four albums for Epic\/CBS in the 70&#8217;s, the band signed with Atlantic Records for its heaviest album to date, 1981\u2019s\u00a0<em>Iron Age<\/em>. That same year Joyce Kennedy guested with Molly Hatchet on the song &#8220;Respect Me in the Morning&#8221; from the\u00a0<em>Take No Prisoners\u00a0<\/em>album. Mother&#8217;s Finest went on hiatus after 1983\u2019s\u00a0<em>One Mother to Another<\/em>, with vocalist Joyce Kennedy pursuing a solo career, releasing the soul\/R&amp;B-styled\u00a0<em>Lookin&#8217; for Trouble\u00a0<\/em>album on A&amp;M Records in 1984. She scored a Billboard Top 40 hit with &#8220;The Last Time I Made Love&#8221;, a duet with Jeffrey Osborne. A year later, Joyce recorded the song &#8220;Didn&#8217;t I Tell You?&#8221; for the soundtrack of the film\u00a0<em>The Breakfast Club<\/em>. Drummer Barry Borden, who had joined Molly Hatchet on the\u00a0<em>No Guts&#8230;No Glory\u00a0<\/em>album, teamed up with guitarist Moses Mo in the band Illusion, resulting in a pair of albums,\u00a0<em>Illusion\u00a0<\/em>(1985) and\u00a0<em>I Like It Loud\u00a0<\/em>(1986), on Geffen Records. Borden would later join The Outlaws for a pair of albums and has been a member of The Marshall Tucker Band since the late 1990s.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, bassist Wyzard toured with Fleetwood Mac&#8217;s Stevie Nicks behind her 1983 album <em>The Wild Heart<\/em>, including an appearance on <em>Saturday Night Live<\/em>. Eventually, he and brother\/drummer Harold Seay, who had replaced Barry Borden on <em>One Mother to Another<\/em>, joined Rick Medlocke in a revamped Blackfoot lineup and appeared on 1987&#8217;s <em>Rick Medlocke and Blackfoot<\/em> album.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Daayuummmm&#8230;not too shabby, wouldn&#8217;t you say? One more vid from these Mothers; can&#8217;t possibly go wrong with a funky hard-rocking cover of a Smokey Robinson tune.<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/lyy-Sv6D8MM?si=Sm04NjNwnoGrlNFD\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Update!<\/strong><\/em> Bonus cool points to anybody who figured I&#8217;d never be able to resist putting this one up too.<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/h0-le9ihIJo?si=X-Cn0zAZLkW89ZOQ\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Annnnd the rest of it.<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-pV97Te_PBI?si=COjm47PWh6LrxIXJ\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Excellent ATL band, who I was fortunate enough to see open for Da Nuge twice, and Aerosmith (IIRC) once, back in the mid-70s. Apparently, that Rockpalast appearance was enough all by itself to catapult them to Euro-stardom. Mother&#8217;s Finest issued its debut album Mother&#8217;s Finest\u00a0in&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"easywp-readmore\"><a class=\"read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/coldfury.com\/wp\/mothers-finest\/\">Would you like to know more?<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Mother&#8217;s Finest<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,169,118],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brilliant","category-classic-rock","category-guitars-and-those-who-sling","wpcat-20-id","wpcat-169-id","wpcat-118-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldfury.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28436","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldfury.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldfury.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldfury.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldfury.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28436"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/coldfury.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28436\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28438,"href":"https:\/\/coldfury.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28436\/revisions\/28438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldfury.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldfury.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldfury.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}