Gangster of Love

Infobox Album |
Name = Gangster of Love
Type = Studio album
Artist = Johnny "Guitar" Watson


Released = 1957
Recorded = 1953 - 1954
Genre = Blues
Electric blues
Blues rock
Length =
Label = Keen Records (1957)
King Records (1958)
Sanctuary Records (2002)
Producer =
Reviews = * Allmusic Rating|4.5|5 [http://allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&token=&sql=10:gxfexql0ld6e link]
Last album =
This album = "Gangster of Love"
(1957)
Next album = "I Cried for You"
(1963)

"Gangster of Love" the debut album for the American blues musician Johnny "Guitar" Watson, whose long career influenced the development of blues, soul music, rhythm & blues, funk, rock music, and rap music. It was released through Keen Records in 1957 and then King Records/Federal Records again in 1958. It was most recently released on CD by Sanctuary Records in 2002.

Track listing

#"I Got Eyes"
#"Motorhead Baby"
#"Gettin Drunk"
#"Walkin To My Baby"
#"Highway 60"
#"Space Guitar (alt)"
#"Sad Fool"
#"What's Going On"
#"Half Pint of Whiskey"
#"No I Can't"
#"Thinking"
#"Broke and Lonely"
#"Cuttin In"
#"What You Do to Me"
#"Those Lonely, Lonely Nights"
#"You Can't Take It With You"
#"I Just Wants Me Some Love"
#"Gangster of Love"
#"Space Guitar"
#"Sweet Lovin Mama"

Gangster of Love (song)

In the year 2006, the song was used in an Axe Clix commercial featuring Nick Lachey, in the United States, and Ben Affleck in Europe. [http://www.theaxeeffect.com/axeclix.html]

Production

*Johnny "Guitar" Watson - organ, synthesizer, bass, guitar, piano, conga, drums, keyboards, timbales, triangle, vocals, clavinet
*Rudy Copeland, James Ivory Johnson, Randie Redman, Darcus Thomas, Marci Thomas, - vocals (bckgr)
*Paul Dunmall, Knud Jensen - saxophone
*Bruce Fowler - trombone, horn
*Walt Fowler - trumpet, horn
*Peter Martin Trumpet
*Tommy Robertson - trombone
*Emry Thomas - drums, vocals (bckgr), whistle, siren, bell tree
*Albert Wing - horn, sax