What do you get when the worlds greatest funk band collides head on with the Woodstock Nation?
Drugs: The Mis-Americans, (Rx) a band with a critically acclaimed debut album and an underground reputation for a live show that rivals the best on the jam band circuit.
Rx sprung from P Funk’s frontman Mike Clip Payne’s collaboration with Woodstock’s Robert Chicken Burke and Adam Widoff (Toshi Reagon’s Big Lovely), that grew to include an all-star cast of musicians. Joe Eppard of 3, Jeremy Bernstein of Stoney Clove Lane, Stephanie McKay ( Mos Def, ) and Parliament Funkadelic’s Lige Curry and Garry “Starchild” Shider (R n R Hall of Fame 97)
Their debut album, The Prescription for Mis-America was praised for
“reviving the psychedelic sound of the 60’s but mixing it with a touch of Sly Stone and Curtis Mayfield to create their own sound, not a parody of those who came before.” ushering in the Psychedelic Soul Revolution. P funk fan mags have described it as “take[ing] up where the 1972 Funkadelic classic America Eats Its Young leaves off.”