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Rolling Stone

Rolling Stone is a US-based magazine devoted to music, liberal politics, and popular culture that is published every two weeks. Rolling Stone was founded in San Francisco in 1967 by Jann Wenner and music critic Ralph J...

called the album slightly uneven but a promising step forward. Their review approved of both the session musicians and the arrangements, and was particularly complimentary towards his cover of "Love Hurts", saying "he brings a sense of pain very different from Roy Orbison's original."

Allmusic's retrospective review was more satisfied with the variety of styles, commenting "dipping into a wide range of musical styles, there is something for everyone on Short Cut Draw Blood", and saying the album is even better than his first.

Track listing

All tracks composed by Jim Capaldi, except where indicated.

1. "Goodbye Love"
   • Jim Capaldi
     Jim Capaldi
     Nicola James "Jim" Capaldi was an English musician and songwriter. His musical career lasted more than four decades. He co-founded Traffic in Birmingham with Steve Winwood, and the band's psychedelic rock was influential in Britain and the United States...
     
      - vocals, drum machine; Steve Winwood
     Steve Winwood
     Stephen Lawrence "Steve" Winwood is an English international recording artist whose career spans nearly 50 years. He is a songwriter and a musician whose genres include soul music , R&B, rock, blues-rock, pop-rock, and jazz...
     
      - organ, piano, bass, guitar; Remi Kabaka
     Remi Kabaka
     Remi Kabaka is a Nigerian drummer who has performed with Ginger Baker, Steve Winwood, John Martyn, Hugh Masekela, on Rhythm of the Saints by Paul Simon, Short Cut Draw Blood by Jim Capaldi and on Band on the Run by Paul McCartney. His London-based son, also called Remi Kabaka, provided the voice of...
     
      - percussion; Rebop Kwaku Baah
     Rebop Kwaku Baah
     Anthony "Reebop" Kwaku Baah was a Ghanaian percussionist perhaps best known for working with the 1970s rock groups Traffic and Can.-Biography:...
     
      - percussion; Ray Allen - saxophone
2. "It's All Up To You"
   • Jim Capaldi - vocals, drums, percussion; Phil Chen
     Phil Chen
     Phil Chen is a well-known Chinese-Jamaican bassist. He was one of England's most utilized session bassists during the 1970s and 1980s, including being part of the Rod Stewart band from 1977 to 1980, but is probably best known for his later work with Ray Manzarek and Robby Krieger of The Doors.-Life...
     
      - bass; John "Rabbit" Bundrick
     John Bundrick
     John Douglas "Rabbit" Bundrick is an American rock keyboardist, pianist and organist. He is best known for his work with The Who and associations with others including Eric Burdon, Bob Marley and the Wailers, Roger Waters, Free and Crawler. Bundrick is noted as the principal musician for the cult...
     
      - piano, clavinet; Jess Roden
     Jess Roden
     Jess Roden is an English rock singer and guitarist.-Biography:Roden's first band was The Raiders followed by The Shakedown Sound which also included the guitarist, Kevyn Gammond, and keyboard player August Eadon ....
     
      - guitar; Harry Robinson - string arrangments
3. "Love Hurts
   Love Hurts
   "Love Hurts" is the name of a song, written and composed by Boudleaux Bryant. First recorded by The Everly Brothers in July 1960, the song is also well known from a 1975 international hit version by the rock band Nazareth and in the UK by a top 5 hit in 1975 by Jim Capaldi.The song was introduced...
   
   " (Boudleaux Bryant)
   • Jim Capaldi - vocals; Gerry Conway
     Gerry Conway (musician)
     Gerald Conway is an English folk and rock drummer/percussionist, best known for having performed with the backing band for Cat Stevens in the 1970s, Jethro Tull during the 1980s, and currently a member of Fairport Convention as well as his side projects...
     
      - drums; Rosko Gee
     Rosko Gee
     Rosko Gee is a Jamaican bassist who has played with the English band Traffic on their albums When the Eagle Flies and The Last Great Traffic Jam , with the supergroup Go conceived by Stomu Yamashta, which also included Steve Winwood, Al Di Meola, Klaus Schulze and Michael Shrieve, and with the...
     
      - bass; Steve Winwood - piano; Jean Roussel - piano; Chris Spedding
     Chris Spedding
     Chris Spedding is an English rock and roll and jazz guitarist, best known for his session work. Allmusic states - "Spedding is one of the UK's most versatile session guitarists, and has had a long career on two continents that saw him tackle nearly every style of rock and roll, as well as...
     
      - guitar; Ray Allen - percussion; Harry Robinson - string arrangments
4. "Johnny Too Bad" (The Slickers
   The Slickers
   The Slickers were a Jamaican rocksteady and reggae group in the late 1960s and early 1970s.They are best known for the song, "Johnny Too Bad", which featured on the film soundtrack of The Harder They Come, and which was sung with additional lyrics by John Martyn on his Grace and Danger album.The...
   
   )
   • Jim Capaldi - vocals; Roger Hawkins
     Roger Hawkins
     Roger G Hawkins , is an American drummer best known for playing as part of the studio backing band known as The Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section of Alabama...
     
      - drums, spoons; David Hood
     David Hood
     David Hood , is a bassist from Muscle Shoals, Alabama. He also plays the trombone and is a member of the Alabama Music Hall of Fame....
     
      - bass; Barry Beckett
     Barry Beckett
     Barry Edward Beckett was a keyboardist who worked as a session musician with several notable artists on their studio albums...
     
      - piano, organ; Jimmy Johnson
     Jimmy Johnson (musician)
     Jimmy Johnson is an American a member of the Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section that was attached to FAME Studios in Muscle Shoals, Alabama for a period in the 1960s and 1970s, and later was the a founder of Muscle Shoals Sound Studio located at first on 3614 Jackson Highway in Sheffield, Alabama and at...
     
      - rhythm guitar, horn arrangments; Peter Yarrow
     Peter Yarrow
     Peter Yarrow is an American singer who found fame with the 1960s folk music trio Peter, Paul and Mary. Yarrow co-wrote one of the group's most famous songs, "Puff, the Magic Dragon"...
     
      - acoustic guitar; Pete Carr
     Pete Carr
     Jesse Willard "Pete" Carr is an American guitarist. Carr has contributed to hit recordings by Joan Baez, Luther Ingram, Bob Seger, Joe Cocker, Boz Scaggs, Paul Simon, The Staple Singers, Rod Stewart, Barbra Streisand, Wilson Pickett, Hank Williams, Jr., and many more over the past four decades...
     
      - lead guitar; Rebop Kwaku Baah - percussion, Remi Kabaka - percussion; Ray Allen - saxophone; Muscle Shoals Horns - horns
5. "Short Cut Draw Blood"
   • Jim Capaldi - vocals, percussion; Roger Hawkins - drums; David Hood - bass; Barry Beckett - piano; Jimmy Johnson - electric guitar; Pete Carr - lead guitar; Chris Spedding - rhythm guitar; Rebop Kwaku Baah - percussion
6. "Living on a Marble"
   • Jim Capaldi - vocals, percussion; Roger Hawkins - drums; Steve Winwood - bass; Barry Beckett - piano; Jimmy Johnson - rhythm guitar; Pete Carr - acoustic guitar; Chris Spedding - lead guitar
7. "Boy With A Problem"
   • Jim Capaldi - vocals; Roger Hawkins - drums; David Hood - bass; Barry Beckett - piano; Jimmy Johnson - rhythm guitar; Pete Carr - acoustic guitar; Paul Kossoff
     Paul Kossoff
     Paul Francis Kossoff was an English rock guitarist best known as a member of the band Free.Kossoff was ranked 51st in Rolling Stone magazine list of the "100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time" -Early days:...
     
      - lead guitar; Steve Winwood - synthesizer; Rebop Kwaku Baah - percussion; Harry Robinson - string arrangments
8. "Keep On Trying"
   • Jim Capaldi - vocals; Remi Kabaka - drums; Rosko Gee - bass; Steve Winwood - piano, organ; Ray Allen - saxophone; Rico Rodriguez
     Rico Rodriguez
     Rico Rodriguez MBE , also known as Reco or El Reco, is a ska and reggae trombonist. He has recorded with many producers, including Karl Pitterson, Prince Buster, and Lloyd 'Matador' Daley...
     
      - trombone; Phil - guitar, Rebop Kwaku Baah - percussion
9. "Seagull"
   • Jim Capaldi - vocals; Steve Winwood - acoustic guitar, Mellotron, harpsichord; Chris Wood
     Chris Wood (rock musician)
     Christopher Gordon Blandford 'Chris' Wood was a founding member of the English rock band Traffic, along with Steve Winwood, Jim Capaldi, and Dave Mason....
     
     - flute; Remi Kabaka - percussion

One further track from the sessions, "Sugar Honey", was released as a b-side. Aside from Jim Capaldi on vocals, the performing personnel on the track are not known.