| "Unk" in Funk | ||||
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| Released | March 1974 | |||
| Recorded | January 29 & 30, 1974 | |||
| Studio | Ter-Mar Recording, Chicago | |||
| Genre | Blues | |||
| Length | 34:09 | |||
| Label | Chess | |||
| Producer | Muddy Waters, Ralph Bass | |||
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"Unk" in Funk is an album by blues musician Muddy Waters released by the Chess label in 1974. [1]
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| 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]
All compositions by McKinley Morganfield except where noted
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Muddy Waters Sings "Big Bill" is the first studio album, but second overall album by blues musician Muddy Waters, featuring songs by Big Bill Broonzy, released by the Chess label in 1960.
Can't Get No Grindin' is an album by blues musician Muddy Waters released by the Chess label in 1973.
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The Complete Plantation Recordings, subtitled The Historic 1941-42 Library of Congress Field Recordings, is a compilation album of the blues musician Muddy Waters' first recordings collected by Alan Lomax for the Library of Congress in 1941-42 and released by the Chess label in 1993. Lomax recorded Waters at Stovall Farm in Clarksdale, Mississippi in 1941 and returned the following year to make additional recordings. Thirteen tracks were originally released as Down on Stovall’s Plantation in 1966 on Testament Records.
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