Richard Pryor

Joining the label's expanded edition of his debut album, Omnivore delivers an expanded and remastered CD of Richard Pryor's Craps (After Hours).  The 1971 LP was his first for Laff Records and was recorded in front of a predominantly black nightclub audience at Hollywood's Redd Foxx Club.  (Foxx, the club's proprietor and a famously "blue" comedian, would find his greatest success starring in Sanford and Son, for which Pryor was once a writer.)  In these clubs, Pryor took his art to the next level, freed of expectations and censorship.  Here, he took on "Gettin' High," "Masturbating," "Religion," "White Folks," and other controversial topics with frequently outrageous, off-color results.  The 32 tracks on the original album have been joined here by four more cuts from Evolution/Revolution.  The expanded release has been annotated by Scott Saul and remastered by Michael Graves.  Filmmaker Larry Karaszewski provides a new introduction.