What The Hell Is This (CD)

• Category:  Music  »  Blues  »  Modern Urban Blues
• Format: CD   Learn more about the CD format using Tower WIKI.
• Release Date: January 17, 2006
• Label: Shout! Factory
• UPC: 826663976366
• WAPI (Tower ID): 105906984
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• Tower.com Sales Rank: #148118 in Music (See Top 100 Music Bestsellers)
• #3420 in Blues (See Top 100 Blues Bestsellers)
• #167 in Modern Urban Blues (See Top 100 Modern Urban Blues Bestsellers)

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Personnel: Johnny "Guitar" Watson (vocals, guitar, keyboards, bass); Bill Haley, Albert Wing (saxophone); Gregory Davis, Walt Fowler (trumpet); Tony Coleman, Bruce Fowler (trombone); Bobby Howard, Deon Estus (bass); Emry Thomas (drums, percussion).

Personnel: Johnny "Guitar" Watson; Deon Estus.

Recording information: 1979.

Given the gleefully irreverent album cover (featuring the bewildered artist in seriously bold threads, sitting on a tricycle flanked by three female gas station attendants), listeners know that they're in for a fun time before WHAT THE HELL IS THIS? even begins. This 1979 record finds Johnny "Guitar" Watson in a serious funk mode, a fact made immediately clear by the surging opening title track, on which the Texas-born Watson muses about the YWCA and ponders unemployment over a dense, Parliament-worthy backdrop. While Watson does indulge in some of his signature bluesy, pyrotechnic six-string playing, this is a giddy funk/R&B outing that's steeped in thick keyboard and bass lines, and it stands as an underrated gem of the late '70s.

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