The Iron Pot Cooker (Remastered) Camille Yarbrough

• 1 But It Comes Out Mad 06:16
• 2 Dream - Panic - Sonny Boy The Rip-Off Man - Little Sally The Super Sex Star (Taking Care Of Business) 14:04
• 3 Ain't It A Lonely Feeling 03:51
• 4 Take Yo' Praise 04:11
• 5 Can I Get A Witness 04:10
• 6 All Hid 06:12
• Total Runtime 38:44

Info for The Iron Pot Cooker (Remastered)

Camille Yarbrough is Perhaps Best Known for 'take Yo' Praise', which Fatboy Slim Remixed as 'praise You' in 1998. 'take Yo Praise' was Originally Recorded in 1975 for Camille Yarbrough's First and Only Album "The Iron Pot Cooker". The Album was Based on the Very Successful 1971 Stage Dramatization of Yarbrough's One-woman/Spoken Word Show: Tales and Tunes of an African American Griot (Which She Toured Nationally During the 70s and 80s). When it was First Released in 1975, "The Iron Pot Cooker" Received High Reviews from Local and National Media, Including this One from Billboard Magazine: "Yarbrough Has Stylish Traces of Nina Simone and Gil Scott-heron but her Own Style of Singing and Recitation Are Outstanding. Her Songs Are all Thought Provoking".

"Whether you call Camille Yarbrough a street poetess, proto-rapper, or urban politico, there is no doubt that this woman contributed an enormous amount of fire, passion, and strength in all those guises. Neither is there any doubt that her 1975 album, Iron Pot Cooker, is a landmark work of great importance. Rapping in the style of the early era street poets, Yarbrough certainly set the bar for almost every woman in that vein who followed, and in that context, this album can be interpreted as feminist rhetoric -- the empowering vision of a young black woman who emerges from the ghetto, from her circle of women -- from the kitchen -- to impart her message. And, in speaking her mind, in speaking her truth, her words not only elucidate the unknown, they also permit her to just get this stuff off her chest. Absolutely outstanding in its breadth, Iron Pot Cooker's intentions spill out from the minimal instrumentation that frames the songs. From the opening "It Comes out Mad" and through the biting, claustrophobic epic poetry of the 14-minute "Dream/Panic/Sonny Boy the Rip-Off Man/Little Sally the Super Sex Star/(Taking Care of Business)" that rages, quiets and turns street-vendor shill-man on the turn of a dime, Yarbrough does what few other musicians have -- she has shouldered the mantle of epic warrior, of fireside storyteller, creating myth from reality and realism out of mythology. But in Iron Pot Cooker there are also the more traditional trappings of R&B, most notably evident on the deliciously smooth ballad "Ain't It a Lovely Feeling," while Yarbrough tackles the funk on "Can I Get a Witness?." Elsewhere, the now-classic "Take Yo' Praise" is still a treat and will probably be better recognized among the younger generation from Fatboy Slim's hit update. Without Yarbrough taking her stand and paving the way, many younger women probably wouldn't have dared to find and use their voices. Like Patti Smith's Horses, Iron Pot Cooker is woven into the tapestry of experience, of ideology, of just telling the truth like it is." (Amy Hanson, AMG)

Camille Yarbrough, vocals
Cornell Dupree, guitar
Linda Twine, clavinet
James Benjamin, bass
Jimmy Johnson, drums, percussion
Leopoldo Fleming, congas, percussion

Recorded at Vanguard's 23rd Street Studio, New York
Produced by Ed Bland

Digitally remastered

Camille Yarbrough
(born January 8, 1938) is an American musician, actress, poet, activist, television producer, and author.

She is best known for the song "Take Yo' Praise", which Fatboy Slim sampled in his 1998 track "Praise You". "Take Yo' Praise" was originally recorded in 1975 for Yarbrough's first album, The Iron Pot Cooker, released on Vanguard Records. Yarbrough stated that the song was written for "all the people who had come through the black civil rights movement, who had stood up for truth and righteousness and justice, because human beings need to praise and respect one another more than they do". The Iron Pot Cooker was based on the 1971 stage dramatization of Yarbrough's one-woman, spoken word show, Tales and Tunes of an African American Griot. She toured nationally with this show during the 1970s and 1980s. Yarbrough's second album, Ancestor House, is a spoken word/soul/blues album that she released on her own record label, Maat Music, in 2003. Ancestor House was recorded live at Joe's Pub in New York City.

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