| Mama, You Can Bet! | |
|---|---|
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| Studio album by Jyoti | |
| Released | August 28, 2020 |
| Genre | Jazz |
| Length | 44:20 |
| Label | SomeOthaShip |
| Aggregate scores | |
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| Source | Rating |
| Metacritic | 84/100 [1] |
| Review scores | |
| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |   [2] |
| Exclaim! | 8/10 [3] |
| Mojo | [4] |
| Pitchfork | 8.4/10 [5] |
| PopMatters | 8/10 [6] |
| Uncut | [7] |
| The Wire | [8] |
Mama, You Can Bet! is a studio album by Georgia Anne Muldrow, her third under the name Jyoti. [9] [5]
All tracks are written by Georgia Anne Muldrow.
| No. | Title | Length |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | "Mama, You Can Bet!" | 3:11 |
| 2. | "Bop for Aneho" | 2:04 |
| 3. | "Zane, the Scribe" | 2:43 |
| 4. | "Our Joy (Mercedes)" | 1:44 |
| 5. | "Ra's Noise (Thukumbado)" (featuring Lakecia Benjamin) | 3:22 |
| 6. | "Bemoanable Lady Geemix Fonk" | 3:33 |
| 7. | "Orgone" | 3:06 |
| 8. | "Skippin and Trippin" | 1:12 |
| 9. | "Swing, Kirikou, Swing!" | 2:08 |
| 10. | "Quarry's Queries" | 3:06 |
| 11. | "Ancestral Duckets" | 4:04 |
| 12. | "Hard Bap Duke" | 2:55 |
| 13. | "This Walk" | 2:34 |
| 14. | "Fabus Foo Geemix" | 4:50 |
| 15. | "The Cowrie Waltz" | 3:55 |
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