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Released
  
1995

Artist
  
Guitar Shorty

Label
  
Black Top Records

Length
  
54:29

Release date
  
1995

Genres
  
Blues, Blues rock

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Recorded
  
August — September, 1995

Producer
  
Hammond Scott Nauman S. Scott

Get Wise to Yourself (1995)
  
Billie Jean Blues (1996)

Similar
  
Topsy Turvy, I Go Wild!, Roll Over - Baby, Billie Jean Blues, The Best of Guitar Shorty

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Get Wise to Yourself is the third studio album released by blues guitarist Guitar Shorty (David Kearney). The album was recorded during August and September 1995 and released later that year on CD by the label Black Top. The tracks "I'm the Clean up Man" and "Hard to Stay Above the Ground" would later appear on Shorty's compilation album, "The Best of Guitar Shorty", in 2006.

Contents

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Track listing

  1. "I'm the Clean up Man" (Kearney, Scott) — 3:46
  2. "You Better Get Wise to Yourself" (Jones, Swamp Dogg) — 5:32
  3. "I Don't Know Why" (Mitchell, Randle) — 5:29
  4. "You Don't Treat Me Right" (Kearney) — 2:45
  5. "My Baby Loves to Do the Bump" (Kearney) — 4:25
  6. "Hard to Stay Above the Ground" (Kearney, Scott) — 5:41
  7. "You Left Me Dreaming" (Kazanoff, Kearney, Scott, Zeno) — 4:26
  8. "She's Built, She's Built to Kill" (Swamp Dogg) — 3:42
  9. "A Fool Who Wants to Stay" (Kazanoff) — 4:10
  10. "The Blues Done Got Me" (Kearney) — 5:33
  11. "Ways of Man" (Reynolds, Tate) — 3:34
  12. "Smells Good" (Kearney) — 6:43

Personnel

  • Sammy Berfect — organ (hammond)
  • Ernest Youngblood, Jr. — saxophone (tenor)
  • Guitar Shorty — guitar, vocals
  • Mark "Kaz" Kazanoff — saxophone (baritone, tenor), associate producer
  • Raymond Weber — percussion, drums
  • Riley Osborne — piano
  • Charles Elam III, Phillip Manuel — vocals (background)
  • Steve Howard — trumpet, flugelhorn
  • Mark Mullins — trombone
  • Ward Smith — saxophone (alto, baritone, tenor)
  • Lee Allen Zeno — bass, associate producer

    • Production:

  • Matt Coby, Jay Gallagher — assistant engineers
  • David Farrell, Steve Reynolds — engineers, editing, mixing, sequencing
  • Patricia Gorman, Lisa Labo — production assistants
  • Rick Olivier — photography
  • Hammond Scott — producer, editing, mixing, sequencing
  • Nauman S. Scott — executive producer
  • Diane Wanek — design
  • Heather West — production coordination

    • Reception

    While the most of Allmusic review of the album makes more mention of Shorty's live show, it does praise the album, saying that it "is one of his best recorded efforts ... that shows his abilities Toff in the best light."

    Songs

    1I'm the Clean Up Man3:46
    2You Better Get Wise to Yourself5:33
    3I Don't Know Why5:30

    References

    Get Wise to Yourself Wikipedia
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