An American Family, by The Eight Minutes

An American Family

by The Eight Minutes

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Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album
Limited Japanese Import with OBI strip

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1.	Next Time He'll Be Good 03:10	buy track
2.	Loneliest Girl in Town 03:06	buy track
3.	I Can't Get No Higher 03:24	buy track
4.	Find the One Who Loves You 02:49	buy track
5.	Time for a Change 03:08	buy track
6.	I Can't Wait 03:49	buy track
7.	Behind the Times 02:51	buy track
8.	Oh Yes I Do 03:56	buy track
9.	Oh Yes I Do 03:11	buy track
10.	Take My Love Don't Set Me Free 06:07	buy track
11.	Here's Some Dances (Bonus Track) 02:49	buy track
12.	Will You Be Mine (Bonus Track) 03:29	buy track
13.	Let's Sign a Peace Treaty (Bonus Track) 03:36	buy track
14.	Looking for a Brand New Game (Bonus Track) 02:31	buy track

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Released on Perception Records in 1972 'An American Family' is an album that showcases The Eight Minutes, an eight-piece discovered by Soul legend Doris Jones and made up of three members each from the Goggins and Sudduth families with the additions of Juwanna Glover and Carl Monroe. It is an album of vocal soul that veers from territory occupied by The Jacksons to The Undisputed Truth to the psych-folk-soul of Norman Whitfield produced acts and vocal groups such as Friends of Distinction.

An American Family is produced by the band's manager James L. Porter who contributes, as writer or co-writer, six songs to the album including the powerful anti-Vietnam War, anti-poverty and pro- environment protest song 'Time For A Change'. With its heavy bassline and call and response chorus Time For A Change is a real call to arms and deserves its place alongside Marvin's What's Going On and Stevie's Living For The City and Village Ghetto Land.

Other songwriting duties are shared by future Disco dons Patrick Adams and Leroy Burgess as well as Soft Soul Records boss Kenny Jones, Jackson 5 songwriter Sherman Nesberry, Chicago's Ernie McFall and band member Hedda Sudduth. All of which combine to create an album of top drawer vocal soul and Black music.

As part of the Perception/Today Records re-issue series this digital release has four extra tracks in the shape of single releases 'Here's Some Dances', 'Will You Still Be Mine', 'Let's Sign A Peace Treaty' and 'Looking For A Brand New Game'.

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released February 17, 2023

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