"Unk" in Funk

"Unk" in Funk
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
Can't Get No Grindin' (1973) "Unk" in Funk (1974) The Muddy Waters Woodstock Album (1975)

"Unk" in Funk is an album by blues musician Muddy Waters released by the Chess label in 1974.^[1]

Reception

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[2]

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

1. "Rollin' and Tumblin'" – 7:28
2. "Just to Be with You" (Berney Roth) – 3:55
3. "Electric Man" (Amelia Cooper, Terry Abrahamson) – 3:10
4. "Trouble No More" – 2:40
5. ""Unk" in Funk" (Cooper, Abrahamson, Ted Kerland) – 3:22
6. "Drive My Blues Away" – 2:48
7. "Katie" – 3:04
8. "Waterboy Waterboy" – 4:00
9. "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

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