R.I.P. Walter “Junie” Morrison

By Peter Helman

Walter “Junie” Morrison, the legendary funk musician known for his work with the Ohio Players and Parliament-Funkadelic, has died, OkayPlayer reports. His daughter Akasha Morrison announced the news on his Facebook page. He was 62.

Morrison joined the Ohio Players as a producer, writer, keyboardist, and vocalist in the early 1970s. He worked on their albums Pain, Pleasure, and Ecstasy, and he arranged and co-wrote their 1973 hit “Funky Worm,” the song that basically gave rise to the entire G-Funk sound in the ’90s. After leaving the band in 1974, he released three solo albums before becoming the musical director for George Clinton’s Parliament-Funkadelic.

He released several more solo albums in the ’80s and produced records for other atists including Soul II Soul. In 1997, he was inducted into the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame as part of P-Funk. His last solo album, When The City, came out in 2004, and he recently served as the inspiration for Solange’s A Seat At The Table track “Junie.”

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