Short Fuse Blues
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Short Fuse Blues is the debut album by Australian blues
singer and guitarist Dave Hole
, released in 1990. The album was recorded over three days at Planet Studios in Perth, Western Australia
. It was financed and produced by Hole. Alligator Records
signed Hole as their first non-US artist in 26 years and re-released the album in 1992.
Blues
Blues is the name given to both a musical form and a music genre that originated in African-American communities of primarily the "Deep South" of the United States at the end of the 19th century from spirituals, work songs, field hollers, shouts and chants, and rhymed simple narrative ballads...
singer and guitarist Dave Hole
Dave Hole
Dave Hole is an Australian slide guitarist known for his style of playing rock and roll and blues music.-Biography:...
, released in 1990. The album was recorded over three days at Planet Studios in Perth, Western Australia
Perth, Western Australia
Perth is the capital and largest city of the Australian state of Western Australia and the fourth most populous city in Australia. The Perth metropolitan area has an estimated population of almost 1,700,000....
. It was financed and produced by Hole. Alligator Records
Alligator Records
Alligator Records is a Chicago-based independent blues record label founded by Bruce Iglauer in 1971.Iglauer started the label with his own savings to record and produce his favorite band Hound Dog Taylor & The HouseRockers, whom his employer, Bob Koester of Delmark Records, declined to record...
signed Hole as their first non-US artist in 26 years and re-released the album in 1992.
Track listing
- "Keep Your Motor Running" - Dave Hole (3:44)
- "The Bottle" Dave Hole (4:40)
- "Short Fuse Blues" Dave Hole (5:15)
- "Every Girl I See" Willie DixonWillie DixonWilliam James "Willie" Dixon was an American blues musician, vocalist, songwriter, arranger and record producer. A Grammy Award winner who was proficient on both the Upright bass and the guitar, as well as his own singing voice, Dixon is arguably best known as one of the most prolific songwriters...
& M MurphyMatt Murphy (blues guitarist)Matt "Guitar" Murphy is an American blues guitarist.-Life and career:Matt Murphy was born in Sunflower, Mississippi, United States, and was educated in Memphis, where his father worked at the Peabody Hotel...
(3:45) - "Something Fine" Dave Hole (3:26)
- "Albatross" Peter GreenPeter Green (musician)Peter Green is a British blues-rock guitarist and the founder of the band Fleetwood Mac...
(4:10) - "Night Cat" Dave Hole (5:29)
- "Tore Down" ThompsonSonny ThompsonSonny Thompson was an American R&B bandleader and pianist, popular in the 1940s and 1950s.Born Alfonso Thompson in Centreville, Mississippi, he began recording in 1946, and in 1948 achieved two #1 R&B chart hits on the Miracle label – "Long Gone " and "Late Freight", both featuring saxophonist...
(5:00) - "The Sun Is Shining" Elmore JamesElmore JamesElmore James was an American blues guitarist, singer, songwriter and band leader. He was known as "the King of the Slide Guitar" and had a unique guitar style, noted for his use of loud amplification and his stirring voice.-Biography:James was born Elmore Brooks in the old Richland community in...
(5:10) - "Business Man" Dave Hole (4:05)
- "Take A Swing" Dave Hole (6:28)
- "Dark Was The Night (Cold Was The Ground)" Willie Johnson (2:16)
- "Truckload Of Lovin'" Adams & Jimmy Lewis (4:01)
- "Purple Haze" Jimi HendrixJimi HendrixJames Marshall "Jimi" Hendrix was an American guitarist and singer-songwriter...
(3:47)
Personnel
- Dave Hole - guitar, vocals
- Ronnie 'Greystoke' Parker - drums, percussion
- John 'Hambone' Wilson - bass guitar
- Bob Patient - keyboards