![]() ![]() Along with the aforesaid righteously rock-ified cover of the Miracles' Motown standard "Mickey's Monkey" and a faithful "Burning Love" in tribute to the King on this, the year of his passing, Another Mother Further featured a tellingly restrained production that suggested marketing gremlins had by then set up shop inside the studio, bent on commercializing Mother's Finest's sound. And as easy as it is to make such generalized assumptions a few decades after the fact, this certainly felt like the dilemma facing Southern funk-rockers Mother's Finest upon the release of their sophomore album, Another Mother Further, in 1977. ![]() Back in the '70s, when your band's first album was a commercial stiff and your second started off with a cover instead of an original composition, chances were your parent record company had just about lost faith in your ability to crank out a hit. ![]()
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