Funky Town (T-Bone Walker album)

Funky Town is an album by blues guitarist and vocalist T-Bone Walker, released by the BluesWay label in 1968.[4]

Funky Town
Studio album by
T-Bone Walker
Released1968
GenreBlues
Length31:37
LabelBluesWay
ProducerBob Thiele
T-Bone Walker chronology
Stormy Monday Blues
(1968)		 Funky Town
(1968)		 Good Feelin'
(1969)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[1]
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music[2]
The Penguin Guide to Blues Recordings[3]

Critical reception

The Encyclopedia of Popular Music wrote that the album "showcased a virtually undiminished talent, still capable of incisive playing."[2]

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
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References
  1. T-Bone Walker: Funky Town – Listing at AllMusic. Retrieved November 12, 2019.
  2. Larkin, Colin (2006). The Encyclopedia of Popular Music. Volume 8: MUZE. p. 494.CS1 maint: location (link)
  3. The Penguin Guide to Blues Recordings. Penguin Books. 2006. p. 679.
  4. Murray, Charles Shaar (March 18, 2002). "Boogie Man: The Adventures of John Lee Hooker in the American Twentieth Century". Macmillan – via Google Books.
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