I Wanna Get Funky

I Wanna Get Funky
Studio album by Albert King
Released	1974
Recorded	1972
Genre	Electric blues, Funk
Length	46:00
Label	Stax
Producer	Henry Bush, Allen Jones
Albert King chronology
Blues at Sunrise (1973) I Wanna Get Funky (1974) Montreux Festival (1974)

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[1]
The Penguin Guide to Blues Recordings	[2]

I Wanna Get Funky is the eighth studio album by Albert King, covering various blues tunes with heavy funk overtones, by Albert King, recorded in 1972 and released in 1974.^[1] With a rhythm section led by the Bar-Kays and horn arrangements by the Memphis Horns,^[3] it is considered by AllMusic as a "another very solid, early-'70s outing".^[1]

Track listing[]

1. "I Wanna Get Funky" (Carl Smith) – 4:08
2. "Playing on Me" (Sir Mack Rice) – 3:25
3. "Walking the Back Streets and Crying" (Sandy Jones) – 6:28
4. "'Til My Back Ain't Got No Bone" (Eddie Floyd, Alvertis Isbell) – 7:32
5. "Flat Tire" (Henry Bush, Booker T. Jones, Albert King) – 4:43
6. "I Can't Hear Nothing But the Blues" (Henry Bush, Dave Clark) – 4:16
7. "Travelin' Man" (Albert King) – 2:52
8. "Crosscut Saw" (R.G. Ford) – 7:45
9. "That's What the Blues Is All About" (Bobby Patterson, Jerry Strickland) – 3:53^[1]

Personnel[]

• Albert King – electric guitar, vocals
• Donald Kinsey (name on album credits incorrectly spelled as "Donald Kenzie") – rhythm guitar
• Memphis Symphony Orchestra – strings
• The Memphis Horns – horns
• The Bar-Kays & The Movement – rhythm section
• Hot Buttered Soul, Henry Bush – backing vocals^[3]
• Lester Snell - arrangements
• Dale Warren - arrangement on "Walking the Back Streets and Crying"

Technical

• Daryl Williams, Robert Jackson, William C. Brown III - engineer
• Maldwin Hamlin - photography

References[]

External links[]

• I Wanna Get Funky at Discogs (list of releases)