Filthy! is Papa John Creach

Papa John Creach

Papa John Creach played for Jefferson Airplane , Hot Tuna, Jefferson Starship, Jefferson Starship - The Next Generation, the San Francisco All-Stars , The Dinosaurs , and Steve Taylor...

's second solo album and the first with his band Zulu. The guitarist of Zulu would later be known as Keb' Mo'

Keb' Mo'

Keb' Mo is an American blues singer, guitarist, and songwriter, currently living in Nashville, Tennessee, United States.-Early life:From early on he had an appreciation for the blues and gospel music...

. The band Hot Tuna

Hot Tuna

Hot Tuna is an American blues-rock band formed by bassist Jack Casady and guitarist Jorma Kaukonen as a spin-off of Jefferson Airplane. It plays acoustic and electric versions of original and traditional blues songs.- Jefferson Airplane side project :...

 also makes an appearance on the album on the track "Walking the Tou Tou," written by Jorma Kaukonen

Jorma Kaukonen

Jorma Ludwik Kaukonen Jr. is an American blues, folk, and rock guitarist, best known for his work with Jefferson Airplane and Hot Tuna.-Biography:...

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Side One

1. "Filthy Funky" (Miles Grayson) – 5:19
2. "No More Country Girls" (Grayson, Lermon Horton) – 3:42
3. "Don't Tell It To No One" (Papa John Creach) – 2:20
4. "Mother's Day" (Roger Spotts) – 3:16
5. "Walking the Tou Tou" (Jorma Kaukonen) – 3:16

Side Two

1. "Everybody Wants My Good Thing" (Grayson, Horton) – 4:12
2. "Far Out" (Spotts) – 3:19
3. "Give Me an Hour in Your Garden (And I'll Show You How to Plant a Rose)" (Grayson, Horton) – 5:30
4. "Time Out for Sex" (Spotts) – 2:59
5. "Up in the Alley" (Creach) – 3:30

Personnel

• Papa John Creach
  Papa John Creach
  Papa John Creach played for Jefferson Airplane , Hot Tuna, Jefferson Starship, Jefferson Starship - The Next Generation, the San Francisco All-Stars , The Dinosaurs , and Steve Taylor...
  
   – electric violin, vocals
• Big Joe Turner
  Big Joe Turner
  Big Joe Turner was an American blues shouter from Kansas City, Missouri. According to the songwriter Doc Pomus, "Rock and roll would have never happened without him." Although he came to his greatest fame in the 1950s with his pioneering rock and roll recordings, particularly "Shake, Rattle and...
  
   – vocals on "Give Me an Hour in Your Garden"
• Harmonica Fats – harmonica on "No More Country Girls"

Zulu

Plays on all tracks except "Walking the Tou Tou"

• Carl Byrd – drums
• Kevin Moore
  Keb' Mo'
  Keb' Mo is an American blues singer, guitarist, and songwriter, currently living in Nashville, Tennessee, United States.-Early life:From early on he had an appreciation for the blues and gospel music...
  
   – guitar
• Johnny Parker – keyboards
• Holden "Hoagy" Raphael – percussion, Jew's harp
  Jew's harp
  The Jew's harp, jaw harp, mouth harp, Ozark harp, trump or juice harp, is thought to be one of the oldest musical instruments in the world; a musician apparently playing it can be seen in a Chinese drawing from the 4th century BC...
  
  
• Sam Williams – bass

Hot Tuna

Plays on "Walking the Tou Tou"

• Jack Casady
  Jack Casady
  Jack Casady , is an American musician considered one of the foremost bass guitarists of the rock music era and best known as a member of Jefferson Airplane. First playing as a lead guitarist with the Washington D.C...
  
   – bass
• Jorma Kaukonen
  Jorma Kaukonen
  Jorma Ludwik Kaukonen Jr. is an American blues, folk, and rock guitarist, best known for his work with Jefferson Airplane and Hot Tuna.-Biography:...
  
   – lead guitar
• Sammy Piazza – drums
• Hoagy Raphael – congas

Horn Section

• Blue Mitchell
  Blue Mitchell
  Richard Allen Mitchell was an American jazz, rhythm and blues, soul, rock, and funk trumpeter, known for many albums recorded as leader and sideman for Riverside, Blue Note and then Mainstream Records.-Biography:...
  
   – trumpet
• Henry Coker
  Henry Coker
  Henry Coker was an American jazz trombonist.Coker studied music at Wellesley College before making his professional debut with John White in 1935. From 1937 to 1939 he played with Nat Towles's territory band, then moved to Hawaii to play with Monk McFay...
  
  , John Ewing – trombones
• Joe Lane Davis, Jerry Jumonville, Maurice Simon
  Maurice Simon
  Maurice James Simon is a jazz saxophonist.A high school classmate of Eric Dolphy Simon appears on an early 1945 Los Angeles recording in a band led by Russell "Illinois" Jacquet and which also included Teddy Edwards, Charles Mingus, Bill Davis and Chico Hamilton.In 1948, again with Jacquet as...
  
   – tenor saxophones

Background Vocals

• Venetta Fields
  Venetta Fields
  Venetta Fields is an American singer best known as session musician for leading rock and pop acts of the 1970s including Pink Floyd, Barbra Streisand, Steely Dan and the Rolling Stones...
  
  , Sherlie Matthews
  Sherlie Matthews
  Sherlie Matthews is an American singer, songwriter and record producer, best known as a backing vocalist for Pop, R&B and Rock groups from the mid 1960s to the present time.-Early life:...
  
  , Marti McCall, Luther Waters, Oren Waters, Maxine Willard

Production

• Papa John Creach – producer, arranger
• Miles Grayson – arranger
• Roger Hamilton Spotts – arranger
• Jamie Dee Howell – production assistance
• Chick Casady – wizard
• Kerry McNabb – recording engineer, mixdown engineer
• Recorded at Paramount Recordint Studio
• Marshall Brevetz – studio supervisor
• Mastered at United Sound, Burbank
• Pat (Maurice) Ieraci – production coordinator
• Bruce Steinberg – photography, design
• Bill Thompson – manager, poetry