Artist: Johnny Guitar Watson
Album: What The Hell Is This
Genre: Soul, Funk, Blues
Label: High Fashion Music
Released: 1979
Quality: FLAC (tracks)
Tracklist:
- What The Hell Is This
- In The World
- Proud Of You
- Cop & Blow
- I Don't Want To Be President
- Mother In Law
- Strung Out
- The Funk If I Know
- Watsonian Institute
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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.