America Eats Its Young

Artist: Funkadelic

Release date: 1972

Record label: Westbound[?]

This was the first album to include the whole of the JB's[?], along with Bootsy Collins, Catfish Collins[?], Chicken Gunnels[?], Rob McCollough[?] and Kash Waddy[?].

Track Listing:

• You Hit the Nail On the Head (George Clinton, Clarence Haskins, Bernie Worrell)
• If You Don't Like the Effects, Don't Produce the Cause (Clinton, Garry Shider)
• Everybody Is Going To Make It This Time (Clinton, Worrell)
• A Joyful Process (Clinton, Worrell)
• We Hurt Too (Clinton)
• Loose Booty (Clinton, Harold Beane[?])
• Philmore (Bootsy Collins)
• Pussy (Clinton, Billy Bass Nelson, Eddie Hazel)
• America Eats Its Young (Beane, Clinton, Worrell)
• Biological Speculation (Clinton, Ernie Harris[?])
• That Was My Girl (Clinton, Sidney Barnes[?])
• Balance (Clinton, Worrell)
• Miss Lucifer's Love (Clinton, Haskins)
• Wake Up (Clinton, James W. Jackson[?], Worrell)

Personnel:

• Keyboards & Melodica: Bernie Worrell
• Percussion: Zachary Frazier[?], Tiki Fulwood, Ty Lampkin[?], Kash Waddy[?]
• Guitar: Harold Beane[?], Catfish Collins[?], Ed Hazel, Garry Shider
• Bass guitar: Bootsy Collins, Prakash John[?], Boogie Mosson[?]
• Trumpet: Bruce Cassidy[?], Arnie Chycoski[?], Ronnie Greenway[?], Chicken Gunnels[?], Al Stanwyck[?]
• Alto saxophone[?]: Randy Wallace[?]
• Tenor saxophone[?]: Robert McCullough[?]
• Steel guitar: Ollie Strong[?]
• Juice harp[?]: James Wesley Jackson[?]
• Violin: Victoria Polley[?], Albert Pratz[?], Bill Richards[?], Joe Sera[?]
• Viola: Walter Babiuk[?], Stanley Solomon[?]
• Cello: Ronald Laurie[?], Peter Schenkman[?]
• Vocals: Harold Beane[?], Diane Brooks[?], Bootsy Collins, Catfish Collins, George Clinton, Ray Davis[?], Ronnie Greenway[?], Clayton Gunnels[?], Fuzzy Haskins, Ed Hazel, Prakash John, Steve Kennedy[?], Garry Shider, Calvin Simon, Grady Thomas[?], Frank Waddy[?], Randy Wallace[?], Bernie Worrell

External Reviews:

• "makes for a freaky, funky, and aware good time."
  • The Alll Music Guide (http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=Adudgyl6jxpzb)

External Links:

• the Motherpage (http://www.duke.edu/~tmc/motherpage/albums_funkadelic/alb-ameats)

Title of song: America Eats Its Young

Artist: Funkadelic

Title of album: America Eats Its Young (see above)

Year of first release: 1972

Songwriter(s): Harold Beane[?], George Clinton, Bernie Worrell

Memorable Lyrics:

• "A luscious bitch she is, true"

Complete lyrics at the Motherpage (http://www.duke.edu/~tmc/motherpage/lyrics_funkadelic/lyr-ameats#lyr-s-ameats)

This song has largely inscrutable lyrics that seem to be claiming that America is a "bitch" that "suck(s) the brains" of her "great grandsons and daughters."

Personnel:

• steel and string guitar arrangements by David Van De Pitte[?]