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

Reception

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".

Who Is This Bitch, Anyway?

Track listing

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

Who Is This Bitch, Anyway?

Personnel

Marlena Shaw – vocals

Benard Ighner – piano, flugelhorn, arranger

Michael Lang – piano

Bill Mays – piano

Larry Nash – electric piano, synthesizer

Dennis Budimir – guitar

Larry Carlton – guitar

David T. Walker – guitar

Chuck Domanico – bass

Chuck Rainey – electric bass

Harvey Mason – drums, wind chimes

Jim Gordon – drums

King Errison – conga

Dale Oehler – arranger

Byron Olson – arranger

Unidentified strings, horns and woodwinds

References

Blue Note Records albums

Marlena Shaw albums

1975 albums

Who Is This Bitch, Anyway?