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Johnny “Guitar” Watson was one of the best-respected guitarists in the world, a musical chameleon and as technically skilled as you could want. He started as a pianist in the early ‘50s, before announcing his six-string skillz with “Space Guitar” in 1954. For 20 years after that, he was a bluesman of the highest order, earning respect and props from people like Jimi Hendrix and Jimmie Vaughan. By the mid ‘70s, blues wasn’t paying the bills anymore, so Watson reinvented himself as a pimp-styled funkster and started charting again. His style of funk was obviously one that was very much informed by the blues, and it proved to be quite popular. The Funk Anthology collects (and chronologically orders) most of Watson’s finer moments from 1976-1981, with three mediocre tracks from his 1994 album, Bow Wow, tacked on for no good reason. Overall, the collection is solid, and should be enjoyable to any fan of late 70s funk.

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– Kevin

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