Johnny Guitar Watson - What The Hell Is This? Album

Tracklist

1	Proud Of You
2	I Don't Want To Be President
3	Cop & Blow
4	Mother In Law Bass – Bobby HowardSaxophone – Bill Haley Trombone – Tony Coleman Trumpet – Gregory DavisVocals – Tasha , Wilma Watson
5	Strung Out Bass – Deon Estus
6	In The World
7	What The Hell Is This?

Versions

Category	Artist	Title (Format)	Label	Category	Country	Year
DJM-24	Johnny Guitar Watson	What The Hell Is This? ‎(LP, Album)	DJM Records	DJM-24	US	1979
DK 97636	Johnny Guitar Watson	What The Hell Is This? ‎(CD, Album, Club, RE, RM)	Shout! Factory	DK 97636	US	2006
DJM 20557	Johnny Guitar Watson	What The Hell Is This? ‎(LP, Album)	DJM Records	DJM 20557	UK	1979
DJF 20557	Johnny Guitar Watson	What The Hell Is This? ‎(LP, Album)	DJM Records	DJF 20557	UK	1979
9238-24	Johnny Guitar Watson	What The Hell Is This? ‎(LP, Album)	DJM Records	9238-24	Canada	1979

Credits

• Drums, Tambourine – Emry Thomas
• Producer, Vocals, Guitar, Bass, Piano, Clavinet – Johnny Guitar Watson
• Saxophone – Albert Wing (tracks: A1, A2, B1)
• Trombone – Bruce Fowler (tracks: A1, A2, B1)
• Trumpet – Walt Fowler (tracks: A1, A2, B1)

Video

Album

Given the gleefully irreverent album cover featuring the bewildered artist in seriously bold threads, sitting on a tricycle flanked by three female Watson Jr. February 3, 1935 May 17, 1996, known professionally as Johnny Guitar Watson, was an American blues, soul, and funk musician and singer-songwriter. A flamboyant showman and electric guitarist in the style of T-Bone Walker, Watson recorded throughout the 1950s and 1960s with some success. His creative reinvention in the 1970s with funk overtones, saw Watson have hits with Ain't That a Bitch and Superman Lover. His successful recording career spanned forty years, with his. 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 funkR&B outing that's steeped in thick keyboard and bass lines, and it stands as an underrated gem of the late '70s. Watch the video for What The Hell is This from Johnny 'Guitar' Watson's The Very Best Of Johnny Guitar Watson for free, and see the artwork, lyrics and similar artists. Johnny Guitar Watson February 3, 1935 - May 17, 1996 was an American musician whose long career influenced the development of blues, soul music, rhythm & blues, funk, rock music, and rap music. John Watson, Jr. was bo read more. Cleaned this, played it for the first time and thought I'd put Frank Zappa on by mistake. If you don't like funk, and I generally don't, think again, this is quality stuff. Antworten 1 Antwort anzeigen Mich bei Antworten benachrichtigen Helpful. Master Release. Master-Release bearbeiten Daten sind korrekt. Johnny Guitar Watson - Proud Of You 6:26. what the hell is this 4:42. Listen Zur Liste hinzufügen. feet covers von smokerz. soul and funk von samsnead817. Disco Funk, Soul. Johnny Guitar Watson. Songs in album Johnny Guitar Watson - What The Hell Is This 1979. Johnny Guitar Watson - What The Hell Is This 427. Johnny Guitar Watson - In The World. Johnny Guitar Watson - Proud Of You. Johnny Guitar Watson - Cop & Blow. Johnny Guitar Watson - I Don't Want To Be President. Buy the album for . Songs start at . More By Johnny Guitar Watson. The Funk Anthology. Ain't That a Bitch Unreleased Tracks Version. The Best of the Funk Years. It's About The Dollar Bill - Johnny Guitar Watson. Лента с персональными рекомендациями и музыкальными новинками, радио, подборки на любой вкус, удобное управление своей коллекцией. Johnny Guitar Watson faced 1979 with a level of musical abandon after his previous album Giant,which blended the disco friendly dance rhythms into his by then well established jazzy funksoulblues framework maintained his musical momentum he had been building up in the preceding couple of years. I Don't Want To Be President and Mother in Law are pretty decent tracks, and What the Hell is This is one JGWs best pieces when the beginning of the song is there. The rest of the album is somewhat weak but still Johnny Guitar Watson. I really hope another label reissues this with a better and hopefully complete CD transfer. Read more. All information of this Soul or Funk Album Like fragments, covers, tracks. Album Info This Release. Visitor rating. Release date label labelcode medium genre submit corrections. 1979 djm. Lp vinyl. Change Version Add Version. Total Visits This Week