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What's Funk?

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What's Funk?
Studio album by
ReleasedJanuary 1983
Genre
Length39:07
LabelFull Moon Records[1]
ProducerCliff Davies, Gary Lyons
Grand Funk Railroad chronology
Grand Funk Lives
(1981)
What's Funk?
(1983)
Capitol Collectors Series
(1991)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[2]
MusicHound Rock: The Essential Album Guide[3]
The Rolling Stone Album Guide[4]

What's Funk? is the thirteenth studio album by Grand Funk Railroad, released in 1983.[5] Though the band have continued to tour throughout the years, this stands as their most recent album to date.

Track listing

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All songs written and composed by Mark Farner, except where noted.

Side one

  1. "Rock & Roll American Style" – 4:29
  2. "Nowhere to Run" (Holland–Dozier–Holland) – 2:39
  3. "Innocent" – 3:05
  4. "Still Waitin'" (Don Brewer) – 4:05
  5. "Borderline" – 2:56

Side two

  1. "El Salvador" – 4:11
  2. "It's a Man's World" (James Brown/Betty Jean Newsome) – 4:54
  3. "I'm So True" – 4:10
  4. "Don't Lie to Me" – 4:18
  5. "Life in Outer Space" – 4:20

Personnel

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  • Mark Farner – guitars, lead and backing vocals, keyboards
  • Dennis Bellinger – bass, backing vocals
  • Don Brewer – drums, backing and lead vocals, percussion
  • Gary Lyons – producer (Tracks 1, 4, 6, 8, 9, 10)
  • Cliff Davies – producer (Tracks 2, 3, 5, 7)

References

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  1. ^ Hoffmann, Frank (November 12, 2004). Encyclopedia of Recorded Sound. Routledge. ISBN 9781135949501 – via Google Books.
  2. ^ What's Funk? at AllMusic
  3. ^ MusicHound Rock: The Essential Album Guide. Visible Ink Press. 1999. p. 498.
  4. ^ The Rolling Stone Album Guide. Random House. 1992. p. 287.
  5. ^ Larkin, Colin (May 27, 2011). The Encyclopedia of Popular Music. Omnibus Press. ISBN 9780857125958 – via Google Books.