Everybody Has a Plan Until They Get Punched in the Mouth

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Everybody Has a Plan Until They Get Punched in the Mouth
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Studio album by
Released2016
Genre
Length52:14
Label GroundUP
Producer Charlie Hunter
Charlie Hunter chronology
We Two Kings
(2015)
Everybody Has a Plan Until They Get Punched in the Mouth
(2016)
Charlie Hunter/Carter McLean Featuring Silvana Estrada
(2018)
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Everybody Has a Plan Until They Get Punched in the Mouth is a 2016 album by jazz guitarist Charlie Hunter. It is his first record for GroundUP Music.

Contents

The album, whose songs are all written by Hunter, features regular collaborators Bobby Previte on drums and Curtis Fowlkes on trombone, along with Kirk Knuffke on the cornet. Its title refers to a quote by boxer Mike Tyson. According to Hunter, the record is rooted in the blues to an even greater extent than previous efforts: "The concept was to play and not think of it as jazz, but an improvisation of the blues and R&B. This is not from a jazz harmonic place, but straight blues and R&B improvising." [2]

Track listing

All songs written by Charlie Hunter.

  1. "Everybody Has a Plan Until They Get Punched in the Mouth" – 5:02
  2. "(Looks Like) Somebody Got Ahead of Schedule on Their Medication" – 7:33
  3. "Leave Him Lay" – 4:03
  4. "We Don't Want Nobody Nobody Sent" – 5:31
  5. "Big Bill's Blues" – 3:43
  6. "Latin for Travelers" – 4:47
  7. "No Money, No Honey" – 3:53
  8. "Who Put You Behind the Wheel?" – 6:49
  9. "(Wish I Was) Already Paid and on My Way Home" – 6:01
  10. "The Guys. Get. Shirts." – 4:59

Personnel

Production

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References

  1. Allmusic review
  2. "Charlie Hunter's Everybody Has a Plan Until They Get Punched in the Mouth in stores today, 7/22". The Vinyl District. Retrieved 10 January 2019.
  3. "Everybody Has a Plan Until They Get Punched in the Mouth". Discogs. Retrieved 4 January 2019.