BLACK MERDA is an American rock band from Detroit, active from the mid-1960s to the early 1970s and reuniting in 2005. BLACK MERDA has weathered decades of relative inactivity only to return stronger than ever in the 21st Century. Original members V.C. Veasey, Anthony Hawkins and Charles Hawkins were on tour as Edwin Starr's backup band in the mid-sixties when they had a chance encounter with the music of Jimi Hendrix. Shortly thereafter, they embarked on a course that led them to become the link between Hendrix and Funkadelic. In 1967, Black Merda recorded the first of two albums for Chess Records. For these Wasmopolitan sessions, they've reprised one of those early songs and today's tune "Cynthy-Ruth" a blues number that owes far more to Muddy than to Jimi.
"Cynthy-Ruth" is taken from "Black Merda" is the self-titled debut album by the Detroit rock band BLACK MERDA. It was released in 1970 by Chess Records. The original album was long out of print before being reissued on CD by TuffCity Records in 1996. All of the album’s tracks are also collected on the 2005 BLACK MERDA compilation "The Folks From Mother's Mixer".
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