Bootys? Playa Of The Year Bootsy Collins

• 1 Bootsy What's The Name Of This Town 07:03
• 2 May The Force Be With You 06:07
• 3 Very Yes 08:31
• 4 Bootzilla 05:42
• 5 Hollywood Squares 06:20
• 6 Roto-Rooter 06:41
• 7 As In I Love You 05:09
• Total Runtime 45:33

Info for Bootys? Playa Of The Year

Bootsy Collins's 1978 solo album, „Bootys? Playa Of The Year“, has a title that shows, without bragging, just how essential the bassist/songwriter/producer/all-around creative sparkplug was to George Clinton and the P-Funk empire. For the first time since starting his own project in the P-Funk extended family, Collins seems to have focused intently on his own material, which means that these seven songs lack the occasionally meandering jams that weighed down earlier Bootsy's Rubber Band albums.

The grooves here are sharper, but the tempos are also slower, with over half of the record perfecting the deep-groove ballad style that Collins had first experimented with on 1977's 'Munchies for Your Love.' In particular, the centerpiece track, 'May the Force Be with You,' makes the listener wonder if Collins and Clinton (a producer on this outing) had been listening to Lee Perry's classic mid-'70s dub sides; a similarly spaced-out feel predominates here and on its extended follow-up, 'Very Yes.' Although the over-extended P-Funk crew was about to crack up for good, this album features Collins, Clinton, and the rest at the peaks of their powers.

Bootsy Collins, vocals, guitar
Gary 'Mudbone' Cooper, vocals, drums
Robert 'P-Nut' Johnson, vocals
Casper, guitar, drums
Phelps 'Catfish' Collins, guitar
Maceo Parker, saxophone, horns
Rick Gardner, trumpet, horns
Fred Wesley, trombone, horns
Richard 'Kush' Griffith, horns
Joel Johnson, keyboards
Frankie 'Kash' Waddy, drums

Engineered by Pat Kraus, Jim Vitti
Produced by George Clinton, Kevin Tong, Bootsy Collins

Digitally remastered

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