Who Is This Bitch, Anyway?

Who Is This Bitch, Anyway? is an album by American vocalist Marlena Shaw recorded in 1974 and released on the Blue Note label.[1]

Who Is This Bitch, Anyway?
Studio album by
Released1975
RecordedJune 12 and December 3–6, 1974
StudioThe Record Plant, Los Angeles
GenreJazz
Length39:07
LabelBlue Note
BN-LA397-G
ProducerBenard Ighner
Marlena Shaw chronology
Marlena Shaw Live at Montreux
(1974)
Who Is This Bitch, Anyway?
(1975)
Just a Matter of Time
(1976)

Reception

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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".[2]

Professional ratings
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Allmusic     [2]

Track listing

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  1. "You, Me and Ethel / Street Walking Woman" (Marlena Shaw / Loonis McGlohon, Byron Olson) – 6:20
  2. "You Taught Me How to Speak in Love" (Molly Ann Leiken, Art Munson) – 3:52
  3. "Davy" (Benard Ighner) – 5:26
  4. "Feel Like Makin' Love" (Eugene McDaniels) – 5:00
  5. "The Lord Giveth and the Lord Taketh Away" (Shaw) – 1:05
  6. "You Been Away Too Long" (Ighner) – 3:07
  7. "You" (Shaw) – 3:45
  8. "Loving You Was Like a Party" (Ighner) – 4:17
  9. "A Prelude for Rose Marie" (Olson) – 1:56
  10. "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

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References

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  1. ^ Blue Note Records discography, accessed January 14, 2010.
  2. ^ a b Ankeny, J. Allmusic Review accessed January 14, 2011