Medicine Music
EMI, 1990
Recorded in 1989, "Medicine Music" features Bobby skills as an orchestrator as well as a vocalist in music ranging from latin to gospel to spiritual. The album features his vocal ensemble Voicestra on two tracks, as well his father, baritone Robert McFerrin, Sr. (who was the first Afro-American singer ever to appear on the stage of the Metropolitan Opera).
The album features "Common Threads" the song featured on the AIDS documentary of the same name (and which won Bobby an Emmy for Best Original Score), as well as "23rd Psalm" a beautiful arrangement of religious choral music.