Funk This

Chaka Khan - Funk This

Funk This
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Artist: Chaka Khan
Edition: Music CD
Format: Enhanced
CD Release Date: 2007-09-25
Music Label: Strategic Marketing
Soundtracks:
  1. Back In The Day
  2. Foolish Fool
  3. One For All Time
  4. Angel
  5. Will You Love Me?
  6. Castles Made Of Sand
  7. Disrespectful featuring Mary J Blige
  8. Sign 'O' The Times
  9. Pack'd My Bags/You Got The Love featuring Tony Maiden
  10. Ladies' Man
  11. You Belong To Me featuring Michael McDonald
  12. Hail To The Wrong
  13. Super Life

Music reviews of Funk This

Music Review: CHAKA meets THE TIME...!!!
Rating: 5 Stars

This album is FUNKALICIOUS - THICK, BASSY and RAW.

Putting the mighty CHAKA KHAN in FLYTE TYME Studios with the legendary JIMMY JAM & TERRY LEWIS payed off big time! Jimmy and Terry in turn reunited with their TIME guitarist JESSE JOHNSON on 3 vital tracks - "Castles Made of Sand", "Foolish Fool" - with Jesse's bluesy guitar floating thru both while channeling Hendrix, and the stomping remake of former boss PRINCE's epic "Sign O' The Times" - totally reinventing the song.

"Back In The Day", the "Pack'd My Bag/You Got The Love" 1-2 punch and "Superlife" are all fierce!

Great, great album, easily one of the best of 2007 and of CHAKA's career, IMHO... ;-)

Description of Funk This

Chaka Khan's Funk This showcases some of her powerful vocals and most compellings songs to date. In perfect form, Chaka has recorded both new material and covers of some tracks that are near and dear to her heart. This incredible funk album takes us back to Chaka's roots, with much of the feel and instrumentation used in her Rufus days. Includes guest artists Mary J. Blige, Michael McDonald and original Rufus member Tony Maiden.
The first track off Chaka Khan's first album since 2004's Classikhan unspools the vibe she's going for instantly--in the space of a single boing-y guitar lick--and a little deeper in, the lyrics seal the deal: "Those very sounds floating in and out of my head/Created the magic that sealed my fate," she hollers in the don't-hold-back style that's made her an icon. We get the picture--Funk This is Chaka reflecting on three decades of full-bodied, fevered-up soul music and examining how it is she got to be so funkalicious in the first place. Where a lot of legends retrace their backstories and end up with albums that sound warmed over, though, Chaka forges forward (and back) with fresh and fiery swagger; you wouldn't want to handle any of these 13 songs without an oven mitt. That's not to say they aren't familiar. In addition to several just-written songs (the pretty, provocative "Angel," the heartfelt "One for All Times," and the pointedly honest "Will You Love Me"), Chaka covers Prince's "Sign o' the Times," Joni Mitchell's "Ladies Man," and Jimi Hendrix's "Castles Made of Sand," and she also twists a couple of songs she originally recorded with Rufus, "Pack'd My Bags" and "You Got the Love," into a juiced-up medley. Carly Simon's "You Belong to Me" gets the cover treatment in a likable duet with Michael McDonald, but it's another duet that earns this disc five stars for sizzle: "Disrespectful," written by Mary J. Blige and sung with her, busts out glorious grit and gut-level soul, the kind that'll leave listeners quoting Chaka in her "I'm Every Woman" phase: "Whoa, whoa, whoa-oh." --Tammy La Gorce

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