All the Woo in the World

All the Woo in the World

George Clinton’s Parliament/Funkadelic empire was at its height in the mid- to late ‘70s. Clinton’s ever-changing band of iconoclastic musical insurrectionists had always been underground heroes, but they began to gain real commercial momentum with 1976’s Mothership Connection. Keyboardist Bernie Worrell was a relative latecomer to the P-Funk solo-album sweepstakes, but his 1978 debut, All the Woo in the World, stands with Eddie Hazel’s Games, Dames and Guitar Thangs and Bootsy Collins’ Stretchin Out . . . as the best P-Funk-related releases of the ‘70s. The album is characterized by the same brand of slippery, mind-expanding funk that graced contemporary Parliament efforts like Motor Booty Affair and Clones of Dr. Funkenstein. The classically trained Worrell was always one of Clinton’s most gifted collaborators, and his arranging talents are particularly evident on “Insurance Man for the Funk” a creeping midtempo jam that goes through several movements in the course of its nearly 13-minute runtime.

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