''I Wanna Get Funky'' is the eighth studio album by
Albert King, covering various blues tunes with heavy
funk
Funk is a music genre that originated in African American communities in the mid-1960s when musicians created a rhythmic, danceable new form of music through a mixture of various music genres that were popular among African Americans in the m ...
overtones, by
Albert King, recorded in 1972 and released in 1974.
With a rhythm section led by the Bar-Kays and horn arrangements by the Memphis Horns,
it is considered by
AllMusic as a "another very solid, early-'70s outing".
Artwork
In the artwork, Albert King is seen smoking and playing the guitar.
Track listing
#"I Wanna Get Funky"
(Carl Smith) – 4:08
#"Playing on Me"
(Sir Mack Rice
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) – 3:25
#"Walking the Back Streets and Crying"
(Sandy Jones) – 6:28
#"'Til My Back Ain't Got No Bone"
( Eddie Floyd, Alvertis Isbell) – 7:32
#"Flat Tire"
(Henry Bush, Booker T. Jones, Albert King) – 4:43
#"I Can't Hear Nothing But the Blues"
(Henry Bush, Dave Clark) – 4:16
#"Travelin' Man"
(Albert King) – 2:52
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(R.G. Ford) – 7:45
#"That's What the Blues Is All About"
( Bobby Patterson, Jerry Strickland) – 3:53
Personnel
* Albert King –
electric guitar, vocals
*
Donald Kinsey
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Kinsey is one of three sons of the late C ...
(name on album credits incorrectly spelled as "Donald Kenzie") –
rhythm guitar
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*
Memphis Symphony Orchestra – strings
*
The Memphis Horns
The Memphis Horns were an American horn section, made famous by their many appearances on Stax Records. The duo consisted of Wayne Jackson (November 24, 1941 – June 21, 2016) on trumpet and Andrew Love (November 21, 1941 - April 12, 2012) on ...
– horns
*
The Bar-Kays
The Bar-Kays are an American funk band formed in 1964. The band had dozens of record chart, charting single (music), singles from the 1960s to the 1980s, including "Soul Finger" (US Billboard Hot 100, ''Billboard'' Hot 100 number 17, Hot R&B/Hip ...
&
The Movement
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* The Movemen ...
–
rhythm section
A rhythm section is a group of musicians within a music ensemble or band that provides the underlying rhythm, harmony and pulse of the accompaniment, providing a rhythmic and harmonic reference and "beat" for the rest of the band.
The rhythm sec ...
* Hot Buttered Soul, Henry Bush – backing vocals
*Lester Snell - arrangements
*
Dale Warren
Dale Ossman Warren (September 27, 1943February 3, 1994) was an American musician, who was best known for his work as an arranger for Motown Records in the early 1960s, and later for the Stax label where he worked with Isaac Hayes among many o ...
- arrangement on "Walking the Back Streets and Crying"
;Technical
*Daryl Williams, Robert Jackson, William C. Brown III - engineer
*Maldwin Hamlin - photography
References
External links
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1974 albums
Albert King albums
Albums produced by Allen Jones (record producer)
Stax Records albums