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

External Links:

• the Motherpage

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

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

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