Funky Situation
{{Short description|Album by Wilson Pickett}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=May 2025}}
{{Infobox album
| name = A Funky Situation
| type = Album
| artist = Wilson Pickett
| cover = Pickett_fr.jpg
| alt =
| released = 1978
| recorded =
| studio = Fame Recording Studios, Muscle Shoals, Alabama
| venue =
| length = 28:11
| label = Big Tree{{Cite magazine|url=https://recordcollectormag.com/articles/600-dollar-man|title=The 600 Dollar Man|magazine=Record Collector}}
Wicked Records
| producer = Rick Hall
| prev_title = Pickett in the Pocket
| prev_year = 1974
| next_title = I Want You
| next_year = 1980
}}
A Funky Situation is a studio album by the American musician Wilson Pickett, released in 1978.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=92d4DQAAQBAJ&pg=PA211|title=In the Midnight Hour: The Life & Soul of Wilson Pickett|first=Tony|last=Fletcher|date=June 10, 2017|publisher=Oxford University Press}}
Production
Critical reception
{{Music ratings
| rev1 = AllMusic
| rev1Score = {{Rating|1|5}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/a-funky-situation-mw0000846128|title=A Funky Situation|website=AllMusic}}
|rev2 = Christgau's Record Guide
|rev2Score = B{{cite book|last=Christgau|first=Robert|author-link=Robert Christgau|year=1981|title=Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies|publisher=Ticknor & Fields|isbn=089919026X|chapter=Consumer Guide '70s: P|chapter-url=https://www.robertchristgau.com/get_chap.php?k=P&bk=70|accessdate=March 10, 2019|via=robertchristgau.com}}
|rev3 = The Encyclopedia of Popular Music
|rev3score = {{rating|2|5}}{{cite book |last1=Larkin |first1=Colin |title=The Encyclopedia of Popular Music |date=2006 |publisher=MUZE |volume=6 |page=536}}
|rev4 = The New Rolling Stone Record Guide
|rev4score = {{rating|3|5}}{{cite book |title=The New Rolling Stone Record Guide |date=1983 |publisher=Random House |pages=387–388}}
}}
The Bay State Banner deemed it a " dirty-old-man-at-the-disco album."{{cite news |last1=Freedberg |first1=Mike |title=Soul Dog |work=Bay State Banner |issue=3 |date=26 Oct 1978 |page=18}} The Globe and Mail called it "an excellent wild dancing album."{{cite news |last1=Gilday |first1=Katherine |title=Inside the Sleeve Pop |work=The Globe and Mail |date=20 Dec 1978 |page=F9}}
The New Rolling Stone Record Guide wrote that the album "manages to update the tracks—including the inspired 'Lay Me Like You Hate Me', a summation of Pickett's philosophy of romance—without losing the singer's distinctive style." The San Diego Union-Tribune considered it "underrated."{{cite news |last1=Varga |first1=George |title=Box Scores |work=The San Diego Union-Tribune |date=13 Dec 1992 |page=E7}}
Track listing
- "Dance with Me" (Harrison Calloway)
- "She's So Tight" (Rita Grimm, Yvonne Norman)
- "The Night We Called It a Day" (Charles Feldman, John Grazier)
- "Dance You Down" (Al Cartee, Ava Alderidge)
- "Hold on to Your Hinie" (Tony Joe White)
- "Groovin'" (Eddie Brigati, Felix Cavaliere)
- "Lay Me Like You Hate Me" (Wilson Pickett)
- "Funky Situation" (Curtis Wilkins)
- "Time to Let the Sun Shine on Me" (Wilson Pickett)
- "Who Turned You On" (Curtis Wilkins)
Personnel
- Wilson Pickett - vocals
- Randy McCormick - keyboards
- Ken Bell, Larry Byrom - guitar
- Bob Wray - bass
- Roger Clark, Roger Hawkins (track 9) - drums
- Mickey Buckins - percussion
- Charles Chalmers, Donna Rhodes, Sandra Rhodes, Ava Aldridge, Cindy Richardson, Suzy Storm - backing vocals
- Muscle Shoals Horns - horns
- Harrison Calloway - horn arrangements
;Technical
- Lynn Dreese Breslin - albums design
- Jim Houghton - cover photography
References
{{Wilson Pickett}}
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Category:Wilson Pickett albums
Category:Atlantic Records albums
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