Claude says:Mama Cass's voice—that contralto warmth wrapped around pop-folk arrangements—sits in this 2005 retrospective like a reminder that she was always more than the Mamas & the Papas harmony part. You found your way to "Make Your Own Kind of Music" once in March 2019 and let it stick, the song's gentle permission slip landing differently when it's just her, unbothered by what anyone else is playing.