Boxset / Compilation · 1992
Tracklist
1. Red Hot Mama (4:28)
2. Come in Out of the Rain (2:58)
3. Fantasy Is Reality (3:58)
4. Breakdown (3:53)
5. Loose Booty (10:21)
6. Unfinished Instrumental (5:12)
7. I Call My Baby Pussycat (4:24)
8. Put Love in Your Life (5:07)
9. Little Old Country Boy (3:58)
10. Moonshine Heather [Takin' Care of Business] (4:05)
11. Oh Lord, Why Lord/Prayer (5:00)
12. My Automobile (4:45)
13. There Is Nothing Before Me but Thang (3:56)
14. Funky Woman (2:56)
15. Livin' the Life (5:57)
16. The Silent Boatmen (5:44)
Total Time: 76:49
Line-up/Musicians
Bass Guitar – Billy Nelson
Drums – Tiki Fulwood, Tyrone Lampkin
Guitar – Eddie Hazel
Keyboards – Bernie Worrell
Rhythm Guitar – Garry Shider, Tawl Ross
Vocals – Calvin Simon, Clarence Eugene Haskins , George Clinton, Grady Thomas, Raymond Davis
About this release
HDH – HDHCD-3909-2 (US)
Reissued in 1997 as "The Early Years"(Deepbeats – DEEPM 023,UK)
Tracks 7-16 from the original 1970 LP "Osmium"
Tracks 1,2,4 released in 1971 and 1972 as singles
Tracks 3,5,6 previously unreleased
Thanks to snobb for the updates