Billie Jean Blues

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Billie Jean Blues
Compilation album by Guitar Shorty
Released	August 27, 1996
Genre	blues blues-rock
Length	58:59
Label	Collectables
Professional reviews
All Music Guide link PBR
Guitar Shorty chronology
Get Wise to Yourself (1995) Billie Jean Blues (1996) Blues Is All Right (1996)

Billie Jean Blues is the first compilation album released by blues guitarist Guitar Shorty (David Kearney). The album was on CD by the label Collectables on August 27, 1996, the same day as the compilation album Blues Is All Right. The album was produced by Swamp Dogg at several club sessions. The Penguin Guide to Blues Recordings says that "most of the club performances are over-extended, some self-defeatingly."^[1]

A reworked version of "Hey Joe" would later appear on Shorty's other compilation album, "The Best of Guitar Shorty", in 2006.

[edit] Track listing

1. "Shorty's Theme" (Kearney) — 7:36
2. "Hey Joe" (Roberts) — 5:57
3. "Whole Lot of Loving" (Kearney) — 10:25
4. "Papa's Got a Brand New Bag" — 5:17
5. "Shorty's Theme, No. 2" (Kearney) — 11:19
6. "Billie Jean Blues" (Kearney) — 2:11
7. "We Don't Give a Shit & The Blues Is Alright" (Kearney) — 16:14

[edit] Personnel

• Guitar Shorty — guitar, vocals
• Mark Marymont — liner notes

[edit] References