what the....you mean i can't sing?!

Melvin Van Peebles was a Renaissance man of the '70s -a director/ producer of groundbreaking cinema (Sweet Sweetback's Badasssss Song, Watermelon Man), a writer of books and screenplays, and a funky, trendsetting recording artist. As a legend of African American cinema, Van Peebles was in a unique situation to translate his experiences into his powerful 1974 Atlantic recording What The....You Mean I Can't Sing?!. Gritty, funky and as essential to '70s music as Sly Stone or Curtis Mayfield, What The.... is reissued with new liner notes and an illuminating interview with Van Peebles.