Mama’s Cookin’ – Run Up Quick

Pull those old records off the shelf – remember the labels that gave you a huge clue as to what you would hear when you watched the label dance round and round – “Atlantic, Buddha, Stax, and Hi – Let the needle kiss the record, let it open wide.” Put together a band that can emulate an era while sounding fully placed in the new century and you have Mama’s Cookin’. Sweet, savory blues full of joyful dance and hard time contemplation. A party record in a MarvinGaye sorta way – with social consciousness raised while dancing. Shoutouts for What I Am (“I’m colder than cold when it comes to the blues”), Black Reign (“let’s learn from the apst and wake up y’all”) and Aquarius Skies (“My grandmother told me one time she sat so still that she saw the divine.”). Mama’s Cookin’