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You Can't Teach an Old Dog New Tricks

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Released
  
May 27, 2011

Label
  
Play It Again Sam

You Can't Teach An Old Dog New Tricks (2011)
  
Hubcap Music (2013)

Genre
  
Blues

Producer
  
Seasick Steve

You Can't Teach An Old Dog New Tricks is the fifth studio album by Seasick Steve. The album features former Led Zeppelin bass guitarist John Paul Jones. It peaked at #6 on the UK charts and #18 on the Irish charts.

Contents

Track listing

All songs written by Seasick Steve except "Whiskey Ballad" by Paul Martin Wold.

Personnel

According to the official CD liner notes.

  • Seasick Steve – vocals, guitar, banjo
  • John Paul Jones – bass guitar on "You Can' Teach an Old Dog new Tricks..." and "Back in the Doghouse"; mandolin on "Long Long Way"
  • Dan Magnusson – percussion on "You Can' Teach an Old Dog new Tricks...", "Burnin' Up", "I Don't Know Why She Love Me But She Do", "Back in the Doghouse", "Party", "Days Gone" and "It's a Long Long Way"
  • Paul Martin Wold – washboard, backing vocals and whistling on "Whiskey Ballad"
  • Georgina Leach – fiddle on "Treasures" and "Long Long Way"
  • The Lyndhurst Rabble Choir – "It's a Long Long Way"

    • Charts

    "You Can't Teach an Old Dog New Tricks" was the second biggest-selling blues album of 2011 in the UK, with sales of 131,000 copies.

    Changes to band

    John Paul Jones performed with Steve and his drummer Dan Magnusson on the British television show Later... with Jools Holland. It was later confirmed on the show that he had appeared on the album.

    References

    You Can't Teach an Old Dog New Tricks Wikipedia
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