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Watch Your Back

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Released
  
April 27, 2004

Label
  
Alligator

Genre
  
Blues, blues rock

Producer
  
Brian Brinkerhoff Jesse Harms

Watch Your Back (2004)
  
The Best of Guitar Shorty (2006)

Watch Your Back is the sixth studio album released by blues guitarist Guitar Shorty (David Kearney). The album was released on April 27, 2004 on CD by the label Alligator Records. The album has been called a "welcome return for old fans and a perfect introduction for those new to Shorty's long career."

Contents

Track listing

  1. "Old School" (Jesse Harms) — 3:59
  2. "Story of My Life" (Jesse Harms, Truitt) — 3:13
  3. "I'm Gonna Leave You" (Truitt) — 5:44
  4. "What She Don't Know" (Truitt) — 3:16
  5. "I've Been Working" (Van Morrison) — 4:33
  6. "Get Busy" (Jesse Harms) — 3:41
  7. "Let My Guitar Do the Talking" (Jesse Harms, O'Keefe) — 4:50
  8. "It Ain't the Fall That Kills You" (Jesse Harms) — 4:04
  9. "Right Tool for the Job" (Truitt) — 3:44

Personnel

  • Guitar Shorty — guitar, vocals
  • Sweet William Bouchard — bass
  • Electric Vic Johnson — guitar (rhythm)
  • Alvino Bennett — drums, percussion
  • Jesse Harms — piano, producer, engineer, mixing

    • Production:

  • Dan Monick — photography
  • Brian Brinkerhoff — producer
  • Dan Stout — mastering
  • Marc Lipkin — liner notes
  • Kevin Niemiec — design

    • Reception

    Allmusic calls the album Shorty's "most fiery and gutsy album yet, a tough and uncompromising slab of steely playing, no-nonsense singing, and solid songs." Reviewer Hal Horowitz says that he "rips into these ten tracks sounding like he's young, hungry, and ready to explode."

    Charts

    Album - Billboard

    References

    Watch Your Back Wikipedia
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