Get Wise to Yourself

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Get Wise to Yourself
Studio album by Guitar Shorty
Released	1995
Recorded	August — September, 1995
Genre	blues blues rock
Length	54:29
Label	Black Top
Producer	Hammond Scott Nauman S. Scott
Professional reviews
All Music Guide link
Guitar Shorty chronology
Topsy Turvy (1993) Get Wise to Yourself (1995) Billie Jean Blues (1996)

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 of 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 1 Track listing 2 Personnel 3 Reception 4 References

[edit] 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

[edit] 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

[edit] Reception

While the most of the All Music Guide 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 off in the best light."^[1]

[edit] References