I Go Wild! is the sixth studio album

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 released by blues

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 guitarist

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 Guitar Shorty

Guitar Shorty

Guitar Shorty is an American blues guitarist. He is well known for his explosive guitar style and wild stage antics. Billboard magazine said, “his galvanizing guitar work defines modern, top-of-the-line blues-rock. His vocals remain as forceful as ever...

 (David Kearney). The album was recorded in April 2001 and released later that year on October 23 on CD

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 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

Compilation album

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, "The Best of Guitar Shorty

The Best of Guitar Shorty

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", in 2006.

Track listing

1. "Loosen Up" (Hayes, Porter) — 3:39
2. "Coffee and Cigarettes" (Hewitt, Truitt) — 4:36
3. "Maybe She'll Miss Me" (Barnhill, Rice) — 4:28
4. "If You Can't Lie No Better" (McClinton, Nicholson) — 3:48
5. "Just Warming Up" (Matthews, Pugh) — 4:45
6. "Go Wild!" (Johnson, Rhodes, Wolf) — 3:05
7. "Don't Stop (I Just Started)" (Fraser, Miller) — 3:43
8. "One and Only Man" (Capaldi, Winwood) — 4:47
9. "Life With You" (Rice) — 4:01
10. "Lesson in Love" (Cain, Neall, Vallance, Varnes) — 5:08
11. "Put It All in There" (Dixon) — 5:00
12. "In the Morning" (Mathews, Pugh) — 4:13
13. "The Netherlands" (Kearney) — 6:13

Personnel

• Guitar Shorty — guitar
  Guitar
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  , vocals
• Howard Deere, Glenn Letsch
  Glenn Letsch
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   — bass
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• Terry "Big T" de Rouen — guitar
• Scott Mathews — drum
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  s, guitar (rhythm), keyboards, saxophone
  Saxophone
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  , producer
• Jim Pugh — organ (hammond
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  )

Production:

• Robert Barclay, Markus Cuff — photography
• Brian Brinkerhoff — producer
• Tom Carr — mastering
• Holly Harris — liner notes

Reception

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." The Penguin Guide to Blues Recordings

The Penguin Guide to Blues Recordings

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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."