Richard Pryor

Omnivore travels back to the groundbreaking early years of Richard Pryor with his self-titled debut album, originally released in 1968 on Reprise.  The LP, recorded at the Troubadour, marked a move from his previous, middle-of-the-road comedy; it opened with the "Super N--er" routine and continued with piquant observations about "Girls," "Farting," "Smells," and "Army Life." The album has been expanded by Omnivore with a second disc of 21 tracks previously issued on Rhino's box set Evolution/Revolution: The Early Years (1966-1974).  Scott Saul, author of the 2014 biography Becoming Richard Pryor, writes the liner notes while Michael Graves remasters.