My Way or the Highway (album)

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My Way or the Highway
Studio album by Guitar Shorty
Released 1991
Genre blues
blues rock
Length 52:07
Label JSP
Producer Otis Grand
Guitar Shorty chronology
My Way or the Highway
(1991)		 Topsy Turvy
(1993)

My Way or the Highway is the first major studio album released by blues guitarist Guitar Shorty (David Kearney), even though he had been in the business since the 1950s. The album is credited to "Guitar Shorty & The Otis Grand Blues Band"; it was at the behest and producing of Grand that Shorty made the record.

It was first released in 1991 on CD by the label JSP and was subsequently re-released in 1999 and 2005. Also, the tracks "Red Hot Mama" and "No Educated Woman" would later appear on Shorty's compilation album, "The Best of Guitar Shorty", in 2006.

Track listing

  1. "No Educated Woman" (Kearney) — 6:03
  2. "You Gave Me the Blues Baby" (Kearney) — 5:46
  3. "Shorty Jumps In" (Grand, Kearney) — 6:14
  4. "Down Through the Years" (Kearney) — 5:32
  5. "Red Hot Mama" (Kearney) — 3:23
  6. "Hot and Saucy, Short and Grand" (Grand, Kearney) — 6:39
  7. "It's Too Late" (Kearney) — 11:30
  8. "Kick Out" (Grand, Kearney) — 6:41
  9. "My Way or the Highway" (Kearney) — 5:57

Personnel

Band:

Production:

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic [1]
PGBR

Allmusic proclaims that the "acrobatic guitarist informed everyone he was alive and lively with this one."[2] Shorty's playing is greatly enhanced by Grand; The Penguin Guide to Blues Recordings comments that they both perform well due to the "diversity of the material."[3]

References

  1. ↑ Dahl, Bill. My Way or the Highway (album) at AllMusic
  2. ↑ Bill Dahl. "My Way of the Highway". Retrieved 2007-02-22.
  3. ↑ The Penguin Guide to Blues Recordings by Tony Russell, Chris Smith, et al. pg 231.
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