Owed To Mama Rickie

Rickie Byars Beckwith is Georgia Anne Muldrow's mother. Rickie is also music and arts director at the world famous Agape International Center in Culver City, California. It comes 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 Rickie. 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 worldly posessions 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. Owed To Mama Rickie is a powerful listen from beginning to end with NO skipping. If you loved the Early album, consider this a natural progression in Georgia's recording career from past to present.