Owed to Mama Rickie

VINYL FORMAT. Rickie Byars Beckwith is Georgia Anne Muldrow's mother. Rickie is also music and arts director of the world famous Agape International Center in Culver City, California as no surprise that after releasing a dizzying array of albums, Georgia's latest and most poignant full length would be titled Owed To Mama Rockie. Yes... "Owed" instead of "Ode," the obvious play on words speaks to a promise from daughter to mother to finally release an album that taps directly into her spiritual roots. Still laden with the signature bass heavy, drum snapping funk of her production, the vocals this time around are rich with the soulful musings of the ancients. Songs like "Dr. Feelgood" warn of sugardaddies preying on the weak with worldy psessions while "More & More" (a duet with grammy nominated singer Bilal) reminds you to love yourself, friends, and family. "EZ Duz It" is a funky groove about life in the neighborhood while "All In All" and "The Key," channel energies of the ancestors to cleanse both mind and spirit.