What's Funk?

1983 studio album by Grand Funk Railroad

What's Funk?

Studio album by

Grand Funk Railroad

Released

January 1983

Genre

Hard rock
blues rock

Length

39:07

Label

Full Moon Records^[1]

Producer

Cliff Davies, Gary Lyons

Grand Funk Railroad chronology

Grand Funk Lives
(1981)

What's Funk?
(1983)

Bosnia
(1997)

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	^[2]
MusicHound Rock: The Essential Album Guide	^[3]
The Rolling Stone Album Guide	^[4]

What's Funk? is the thirteenth studio album by Grand Funk Railroad, released in 1983.^[5] Though the band have continued to tour throughout the years, this stands as their most recent album to date.

Track listing

All songs written and composed by Mark Farner, except where noted.

Side one

"Rock & Roll American Style" – 4:29
"Nowhere to Run" (Holland–Dozier–Holland) – 2:39
"Innocent" – 3:05
"Still Waitin'" (Don Brewer) – 4:05
"Borderline" – 2:56

Side two

"El Salvador" – 4:11
"It's a Man's World" (James Brown/Betty Jean Newsome) – 4:54
"I'm So True" – 4:10
"Don't Lie to Me" – 4:18
"Life in Outer Space" – 4:20

Personnel

Mark Farner – guitars, lead and backing vocals, keyboards
Dennis Bellinger – bass, backing vocals
Don Brewer – drums, backing and lead vocals, percussion
Gary Lyons – producer (Tracks 1, 4, 6, 8, 9, 10)
Cliff Davies – producer (Tracks 2, 3, 5, 7)

References

^ Hoffmann, Frank (November 12, 2004). Encyclopedia of Recorded Sound. Routledge. ISBN 9781135949501 – via Google Books.
^ What's Funk? at AllMusic
^ MusicHound Rock: The Essential Album Guide. Visible Ink Press. 1999. p. 498.
^ The Rolling Stone Album Guide. Random House. 1992. p. 287.
^ Larkin, Colin (May 27, 2011). The Encyclopedia of Popular Music. Omnibus Press. ISBN 9780857125958 – via Google Books.