CD Review
Guitar Shorty
Watch Your Back
(Alligator)
by Tony Engelhart
Review Date: May, 2005
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While Watch Your Back is only the 6th release from this guitar legend (editor note: there are more than 6 albums), if you listen to Stevie Ray Vaughan or Jimi Hendrix, you can easily spot some Guitar Shorty’s chops.
His latest release, Watch Your Back, is another amazing example of Shorty’s notorious bar room brawl style blues. Chock full of savagely slashing licks and locked and loaded vocal, the resilient bluesman rips through funk ditties such as ‘Old School’ and ‘What She Don’t Know’. He revamps the Van Morison classic ‘I’ve Been Working’ into a slow burning groove with piercing fills and unperturbed solos. Reaching into his bag of tricks, Shorty offers up some old school Texas blues on ‘Get Busy’ only to slide into a Bo Diddley shuffle on ‘Let My Guitar Do The Talking’. David Kearney aka Guitar Shorty may be old enough to collect his Social Security but he’s still kickin’ it and sounding as good as ever.
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