Mother Earth is a song written and performed by Memphis Slim in 1959. The late 60s band Mother Earth which featured the vocals of Tracy Nelson) took their name from this song. They showcased the song on their 1968 LP Living With The Animals. It was also included in the "Blues For Memphis Slim"-Medley from Eric Burdon & War, which has a length of 13:22 minutes. It was the fourth track on their 1970 debut album Eric Burdon Declares "War".
In 1995 a short version, retitled "Mother Earth" was released on "The Best of Eric Burdon & War".
Famous quotes containing the words mother, earth and/or slim:
“A mother wants all of life to be painless for her child. This is not a realistic goal, however. Deprivation and frustration are as much a part of life as gratification. It is some balance between these that a mother is looking for. To take the next step is always painful in part. It means relinquishing gratification on some level. If one is totally gratified where one is, why move ahead? If one is totally frustrated, why bother?”
—Elaine Heffner (20th century)
“In two or three hundred years life on earth will be unimaginably beautiful, astounding. Man needs such a life and if it hasn’t yet appeared, he should begin to anticipate it, wait for it, dream about it, prepare for it. To achieve this, he has to see and know more than did his grandfather and father.”
—Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860–1904)
“Photographs may be more memorable than moving images because they are a neat slice of time, not a flow. Television is a stream of underselected images, each of which cancels its predecessor. Each still photograph is a privileged moment, turned into a slim object that one can keep and look at again.”
—Susan Sontag (b. 1933)