Watch Your Back

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Watch Your Back
Watch Your Back cover
Studio album by Guitar Shorty
Released April 27, 2004
Genre blues
blues-rock
Label Alligator
Producer Brian Brinkerhoff
Jesse Harms
Professional reviews
Guitar Shorty chronology
I Go Wild!
(2001)		 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."[1]

Contents

[edit] Track listing

  1. "Old School" (Harms) — 3:59
  2. "Story of My Life" (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" (Morrison) — 4:33
  6. "Get Busy" (Harms) — 3:41
  7. "Let My Guitar Do the Talking" (Harms, O'Keefe) — 4:50
  8. "It Ain't the Fall That Kills You" (Harms) — 5:11
  9. "A Little Less Conversation" (Davis, Strange) — 4:04
  10. "Right Tool for the Job" (Truitt) — 3:44

[edit] 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

[edit] Reception

All Music Guide 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."[1] Reviewer Hal Horowitz says that he "rips into these ten tracks sounding like he's young, hungry, and ready to explode."[1]

[edit] Charts

Album - Billboard

Year Chart Position
2004 Top Blues Albums 11

[edit] References

  1. ^ a b c Hal Horowitz. Watch Your Back. Retrieved on 2007-02-26.