Never Buy Texas from a Cowboy | |
Type: | studio |
Artist: | Brides of Funkenstein |
Cover: | Nbtfac.jpg |
Released: | 1979 |
Recorded: | 1979 |
Genre: | Funk |
Length: | 42:24 |
Label: | Atlantic |
Producer: | George Clinton |
Prev Title: | Funk or Walk |
Prev Year: | 1978 |
Next Title: | Live at the Howard Theatre |
Next Year: | 1994 |
Never Buy Texas from a Cowboy is the second album by the American female funk band Brides of Funkenstein, released on Atlantic Records in 1979. Morphing into a trio on the second album release, the vocalists consisted of Dawn Silva, Sheila Horne, and Jeanette McGruder. Horne and McGruder served as background vocalists on subsequent P-Funk concert tours. Never Buy Texas From a Cowboy would be granted a Cashbox Rhythm & Blues Award in 1980 for 'Best Female Group'. The song slated for the award was the 1979 single "Didn't Mean To Fall In Love", written and produced by Ron Dunbar. The album's top single release, "Never Buy Texas From a Cowboy" became a hit in the Midwest, Europe and Asia.
Never Buy Texas From A Cowboy was produced by George Clinton except for "Smoke Signals", which was produced by Clinton and Bootsy Collins, and "Didn't Mean To Fall In Love", which was produced by Ron Dunbar. The album was later reissued in the U.S. by the Wounded Bird label on October 18, 2011.
The Pittsburgh Press noted "the lack of satirical, sometimes fantastic lyrics of P/Funk."[1] The Morning Call wrote that "there's entirely too much screaming, counter-beats, and dissonance in the background."[2]
In 2002, Rolling Stone listed Never Buy Texas from a Cowboy at No. 26 on its list of the 50 "coolest" albums of all time.[3]