- I Go Wild!
Infobox Album |
Name = I Go Wild!
Type = studio
Artist =Guitar Shorty
Released =October 23 ,2001
Recorded = April 2001
Genre =blues blues-rock
Length =
Label = Evidence
Producer = Brian BrinkerhoffScott Mathews
Reviews = *Allmusic rating|3|5 [http://allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:xr5h8qxpbtq4 link]
*PBR rating|2.5|4
Last album = "Roll Over, Baby "(1998)
This album = "I Go Wild!"
(2001)
Next album = "Watch Your Back " (2004)"I Go Wild!" is the sixth
studio album released byblues guitarist Guitar Shorty (David Kearney). The album was recorded in April 2001 and released later that year on October 23 on CD by the label Evidence. The album contains mainly covers of other blues songs.The tracks "Maybe She'll Miss Me" and "Go Wild!" would later appear on Shorty's
compilation album , "The Best of Guitar Shorty ", in 2006.Track listing
#"Loosen Up" (Hayes, Porter) — 3:39
#"Coffee and Cigarettes" (Hewitt, Truitt) — 4:36
#"Maybe She'll Miss Me" (Barnhill, Rice) — 4:28
#"If You Can't Lie No Better" (McClinton, Nicholson) — 3:48
#"Just Warming Up" (Matthews, Pugh) — 4:45
#"Go Wild!" (Johnson, Rhodes, Wolf) — 3:05
#"Don't Stop (I Just Started)" (Fraser, Miller) — 3:43
#"One and Only Man" (Capaldi, Winwood) — 4:47
#"Life With You" (Rice) — 4:01
#"Lesson in Love" (Cain, Neall, Vallance, Varnes) — 5:08
#"Put It All in There" (Dixon) — 5:00
#"In the Morning" (Mathews, Pugh) — 4:13
#"The Netherlands" (Kearney) — 6:13Personnel
*Guitar Shorty —
guitar , vocals
*Howard Deere, Glenn Letsch — bass
*Terry "Big T" de Rouen — guitar
*Scott Mathews —drum s, guitar (rhythm), keyboards,saxophone , producer
*Jim Pugh — organ (hammond)Production:
*Robert Barclay, Markus Cuff — photography
*Brian Brinkerhoff — producer
*Tom Carr — mastering
*Holly Harris — liner notesReception
Allmusic says that the songs "provide matching passion and rambunctiousness" and that "one of the strong points ... is Shorty's ability to translate the exhilaration and acrobatics (literally) of his live show into the studio." [cite web|url=http://allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:xr5h8qxpbtq4 |title=I Go Wild!|author=Al Campbell|accessdate=2007-02-26] "The Penguin Guide to Blues Recordings " says that Shorty is much more restricted on this album than in the past, but this "has the adverse effect of making him play at full throttle almost all the time.""The Penguin Guide to Blues Recordings " by Tony Russell, Chris Smith, et al. pg 231.]References
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