| Say Blow by Blow Backwards | |
| Type: | studio |
| Artist: | Fred Wesley and the Horny Horns |
| Cover: | Say Blow By Blow Backwards.jpg |
| Released: | 1979 |
| Recorded: | 1979 |
| Studio: | United Sound Systems, Detroit, Michigan |
| Genre: | Funk |
| Length: | 56:12 |
| Label: | Atlantic |
| Producer: | Bootsy Collins, George Clinton, Fred Wesley |
| Prev Title: | A Blow for Me, A Toot for You |
| Prev Year: | 1977 |
| Next Title: | The Final Blow |
| Next Year: | 1994 |
Say Blow by Blow Backwards is the second and last album by Fred Wesley and the Horny Horns, featuring Maceo Parker.[1] The album was released in August 1979 by Atlantic Records and was produced by George Clinton, Bootsy Collins, and Fred Wesley.
The album was reissued in 1993, first by P-Vine records in Japan, then by Sequel Records in the UK, and lastly by AEM in the U.S. The CD reissue contains remixes of "Half a Man" and "Say Blow by Blow Backwards", as well as an interview with Bootsy Collins.
The Bay State Banner wrote that the album "has some fine alto sax from Maceo Parker, but little else to recommend it... In addition, a poor mix blurs the sound and muddles the bass and drums."[2] The Pittsburgh Press noted that Parker's "at his best on fast tunes, blowing choppy phrases over syncopated backing."[3] In 1994, Rolling Stone determined that "the horn solos on Say Blow by Blow Backwards (AEM) are generally outclassed by the bass work of Bootsy Collins and Billy Nelson."[4]