"Unk" in Funk
"Unk" in Funk | ||||
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Studio album by Muddy Waters | ||||
Released | March 1974 (1974-03) | |||
Recorded | January 29 & 30, 1974 | |||
Studio | Ter-Mar Recording, Chicago | |||
Genre | Blues | |||
Length | 34:09 | |||
Label | Chess | |||
Producer | Muddy Waters, Ralph Bass | |||
Muddy Waters chronology | ||||
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"Unk" in Funk is an album by blues musician Muddy Waters released by the Chess label in 1974.[1]
Reception
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Source | Rating |
AllMusic | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
AllMusic reviewer Lindsay Planer stated "The nine sides on Unk in Funk (1974) are among the last newly recorded material that Muddy Waters would issue during his nearly 30 year association with Chess Records. Backing up the Chicago blues icon is a band he'd carry with him for the remainder of his performing career ... They run through a better than average selection of Waters' classics with newer compositions more or less tossed in, presumably to keep the track list fresh. Although Waters certainly has nothing to prove, he attacks his old catalog with the drive and command of a man putting it all on the line".[2]
Track listing
All compositions by McKinley Morganfield except where noted
- "Rollin' and Tumblin'" – 7:28
- "Just to Be with You" (Berney Roth) – 3:55
- "Electric Man" (Amelia Cooper, Terry Abrahamson) – 3:10
- "Trouble No More" – 2:40
- ""Unk" in Funk" (Cooper, Abrahamson, Ted Kerland) – 3:22
- "Drive My Blues Away" – 2:48
- "Katie" – 3:04
- "Waterboy Waterboy" – 4:00
- "Everything Gonna Be Alright" (Walter Jacobs) – 3:35
Personnel
- Muddy Waters – vocals, guitar
- Carey Bell Harrington (tracks 1–3 & 6–8), George Buford (tracks 4 & 9), Paul Oscher (track 5) – harmonica
- Pinetop Perkins – piano, harpsichord
- Bob Margolin, Luther "Guitar Junior" Johnson – guitars[2][1]
- Calvin Jones – bass
- Willie Smith – drums
References
- ^ a b Wight, Phil; Rothwell, Fred (1991). "The Complete Muddy Waters Discography" (PDF). Blues & Rhythm (200): 50.
- ^ a b c Planer, Lindsay. Muddy Waters: Unk in Funk – Review at AllMusic. Retrieved August 28, 2019.
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- Muddy Waters Sings "Big Bill"
- 1964
- Folk Singer
- 1966
- Muddy, Brass & the Blues
- 1967
- Super Blues With Bo Diddley and Little Walter
- 1968
- The Super Super Blues Band With Howlin' Wolf and Bo Diddley
- Electric Mud
- 1969
- After the Rain
- Fathers and Sons
- 1972
- The London Muddy Waters Sessions
- 1973
- Can't Get No Grindin'
- 1974
- "Unk" in Funk
- 1975
- The Muddy Waters Woodstock Album
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- Hard Again
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- I'm Ready
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- Muddy "Mississippi" Waters – Live
- 2007
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- 2012
- Live at the Checkerboard Lounge, Chicago 1981
- 1958
- The Best of Muddy Waters
- 1966
- The Real Folk Blues
- 1967
- More Real Folk Blues
- 1971
- McKinley Morganfield A.K.A. Muddy Waters
- 1993
- The Complete Plantation Recordings
- 2000
- Rollin' Stone: The Golden Anniversary Collection
- 2001
- The Anthology (1947–1972)
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- "Baby Please Don't Go"
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- "Hoochie Coochie Man"
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- "Mannish Boy"
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- "Trouble No More"
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- "Rock Me"
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- "You Shook Me"
- 1963
- "You Need Love"