Who Is This Bitch, Anyway? is an album by American vocalist Marlena Shaw recorded in 1974 and released on the Blue Note label.Blue Note Records discography, accessed January 14, 2010.
Reception The Allmusic review by Jason Ankeny awarded the album 4½ stars stating "A record as fierce and blunt as its title portends, Who Is This Bitch, Anyway? vaults Marlena Shaw into a brave new world of feminism and funk, updating the sophisticated soul-jazz approach of her previous records to explore a fast-changing musical, political, and sexual landscape... Not only Shaw's best-selling Blue Note release, Who Is This Bitch, Anyway? represents her creative apex as well".Ankeny, J. Allmusic Review accessed January 14, 2011
Track listing "You, Me and Ethel / Street Walking Woman" (Marlena Shaw / Loonis McGlohon, Byron Olson) – 6:20 "You Taught Me How to Speak in Love" (Molly Ann Leiken, Art Munson) – 3:52 "Davy" (Benard Ighner) – 5:26 "Feel Like Makin' Love" (Eugene McDaniels) – 5:00 "The Lord Giveth and the Lord Taketh Away" (Shaw) – 1:05 "You Been Away Too Long" (Ighner) – 3:07 "You" (Shaw) – 3:45 "Loving You Was Like a Party" (Ighner) – 4:17 "A Prelude for Rose Marie" (Olson) – 1:56 "Rose Marie (Mon Cherie)" (Wilma Callender, Ighner) – 4:19 Recorded on June 12 (tracks 3 & 5), December 3 (tracks 2 & 8), December 4 (tracks 6 & 7), December 5 (tracks 1 & 4) and December 6 (tracks 9 & 10), 1974.
Personnel Marlena Shaw – vocals Benard Ighner – piano, flugelhorn, arranger Michael Lang, Bill Mays – piano Larry Nash – electric piano, synthesizer Dennis Budimir, Larry Carlton, David T. Walker – guitar Chuck Domanico – bass Chuck Rainey – electric bass Harvey Mason – drums, wind chimes Jim Gordon – drums King Errison – conga Dale Oehler – arranger Byron Olson – arranger Unidentified strings, horns and woodwinds
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