Father’s Children – Whos Gonna Save the World

As spiritually adherent to black music as much as they were to black Islam, Fathers Children were born of Washington, D.C.s dirt and grime. Their soulful funk awareness might have found its grandest stage with their self-titled 1979 debut for Mercury, an album that covered the bands gritty soul with a layer of stifling L.A. gloss, that caused few heads to turn, and that marked the beginning of the end for Fathers Children. Years before the coke dust had settled, another albums worth of material had been tracked, the creative supernova that should have ushered the group into the nation’s consciousness years prior. Whos Gonna Save the World is that 1973 explosion, conceived prematurely and then uncovered decades into a lengthy incubation inside producer Robert Hosea Williams suburban beltway garage. Unreleased previously, Fathers Childrens true freshman offering is a work genuinely concerned with its own time and place, bringing together comet-hailing funk, sunny group harmonies, fuzz-guitar solos, shimmering keys, bubbling percussion, spiritual prophecy, and dub experiments.

• 1Everybody’s Got a Problem
• 2Linda
• 3Dirt and Grime
• 4Who’s Gonna Save the World
• 5Kohoutek
• 6In Shallah
• 7Father’s Children
• 8Universal Train
• 9Linda Movement