Rare Earth – Ma (VG+/VG) – LP, AU 1973

Ma is an LP by Rare Earth from 1973 released on the Rare Earth label.

About this album

Ma is a gritty, funk-driven album from Rare Earth that sharpens the band’s Motown-rooted sound into a tougher, more soulful statement. Issued in 1973, it blends rhythm and blues, psychedelic rock and funk with the muscular groove that made the group one of Motown’s most successful rock acts. The title track and a muscular reading of Smiling Faces Sometimes show the band stretching between heaviness and tight harmony, while the record’s live-band feel keeps everything urgent and direct. Ma captures Rare Earth at a point where crossover rock and black American groove met with real force.

Genre: Soul & Funk