Ain't That a Bitch

Ain’t That a Bitch is a funk album by the American musician Johnny "Guitar" Watson, whose long career influenced the development of blues, soul music, rhythm and blues, funk and rock music.

It was certified as a Gold Record for sales of more than 500,000 copies.

[2] In a retrospective review for AllMusic, Stephen Cook praised Ain't That a Bitch, saying it "works beautifully as a first-disc choice for newcomers [to Watson], especially those who want to hear the '70s funk material.

"[3] In 1998, The Wire included Ain't That a Bitch in their list of "100 Records That Set the World on Fire (While No One Was Listening)", where the staff described it as "the best-sounding funk album of all time", complimenting its futuristic lyrics (as on "Superman Lover") and "Watson's unerring ear for note placement" and praising its sound for being "as steely and urgently urban as Edgard Varèse, as slinky as Nat King Cole, as sharp and sassy as no one else in recorded history.

The original 1976 release track list is as follows: In 2003 the UK music company Sanctuary Records, under the Castle Records label, re-released and digitally remastered the album as a "Deluxe Expanded Edition" on compact disc.

Peter Martin (trumpet) and Paul Dunmall (tenor saxophone) in Watson's orchestra in 1976