Funky Town (T-Bone Walker album)

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{{Infobox album

| name = Funky Town

| type = Studio album

| artist = T-Bone Walker

| cover = Funky Town (T-Bone Walker album).jpg

| released = 1968

| recorded =

| studio =

| genre = Blues

| length = 31:37

| label = BluesWay

| producer = Bob Thiele

| prev_title = Stormy Monday Blues

| prev_year = 1968

| next_title = Good Feelin'

| next_year = 1969

}}

{{Music ratings

| rev1 = AllMusic

| rev1Score = {{rating|3|5}}{{AllMusic|class=album |id= mw0000627765 |title= T-Bone Walker: Funky Town – Listing |accessdate= November 12, 2019}}

|rev2 = The Encyclopedia of Popular Music

|rev2score = {{rating|3|5}}{{cite book |last1=Larkin |first1=Colin |title=The Encyclopedia of Popular Music |date=2006 |publisher=MUZE |volume=8 |page=494}}

|rev3 = The Penguin Guide to Blues Recordings

|rev3score = {{rating|2.5|4}}{{cite book |title=The Penguin Guide to Blues Recordings |date=2006 |publisher=Penguin Books |page=679}}

}}

Funky Town is an album by blues guitarist and vocalist T-Bone Walker, released by the BluesWay label in 1968.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KXxRAAAAQBAJ&q=Funky+Town+%28T-Bone+Walker+album%29+1968&pg=PA323|title=Boogie Man: The Adventures of John Lee Hooker in the American Twentieth Century|first=Charles Shaar|last=Murray|date=March 18, 2002|publisher=Macmillan|isbn=9780312270063|via=Google Books}}

Critical reception

The Encyclopedia of Popular Music wrote that the album "showcased a virtually undiminished talent, still capable of incisive playing."

Track listing

All compositions by T-Bone Walker except where noted

  1. "Goin' to Funky Town" – 5:02
  2. "Party Girl" (Walker, E.J. White) – 3:04
  3. "Why My Baby (Keep On Bothering Me)" – 2:53
  4. "Jealous Woman" – 3:16
  5. "Going to Build Me a Playhouse" (Walker, White) – 3:42
  6. "Long Skirt Baby Blues" – 2:31
  7. "Struggling Blues" (Walker, Grover McDaniel) – 3:50
  8. "I'm in an Awful Mood" (Walker, McDaniel) – 4:19
  9. "I Wish My Baby (Would Come Home At Night)" – 3:00

Personnel

References