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What The Hell Is This (CD)

By: Johnny "Guitar" Watson (Artist)


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DISC 1 for What The Hell Is This (CD) Album By Johnny "Guitar" Watson (Artist...
1   What The Hell Is This?
2   In The World
3   Proud Of You
4   Cop & Blow
5   I Don't Want To Be President
6   Mother In Law
7   Strung Out
8   Funk If I Know, The - (previously unreleased, bonus track)
9   Watsonian Institute - (previously unreleased, bonus track)
 

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Title Note

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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