Like the Wrecking Crew, the Funk Brothers (Motown Records), The Muscle Shoals
Rhythm Section, Booker T & the MGs (Stax Records), and the Salsoul Orchestra
(Salsoul Records), MFSB was a collective of studio musicians who worked behind
the scenes and helped to create a series of great recordings but went virtually
uncredited during their heyday. Formed in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1971,
the members of MFSB – which stood for Mother Father Sister Brother – came
together under the guidance of producers / songwriters Kenneth Gamble and Leon
Huff to back up artists signed to the Phi...