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Short Cut Draw Blood is the third studio album by the British musician Jim Capaldi, released by Island Records in 1975. It marked a major turning point in Capaldi's career: it was his first album recorded after the breakup of Traffic, and more importantly it was his commercial breakthrough. While Capaldi's first two solo albums had been moderately successful in the United States (in fact, in Short Cut Draw Blood was his least successful album in the United States thus far, with both the album itself at number 193 and the single "Love Hurts" barely scraping into the Billboard charts at number 97), Short Cut Draw Blood entered the charts in several other countries for the first time. This was particularly evident in his native United Kingdom; the single "It's All Up to You" at number 27, released a year before the album, became his first top 40 hit there, only to be overshadowed the following year by his cover of "Love Hurts", which went all the way to number 4.
The title of the album was conceived by co-producer Chris Blackwell.




Background


The song "Boy with a Problem" was written about former Traffic bandmate Chris Wood, whose self-destructive tendencies (particularly his drug addiction) were a cause of increasing concern for Capaldi. The song features Paul Kossoff on guitar.




Reception



Rolling Stone called the album "still uneven" and "unfocused" but a promising step forward from his first solo work. Their review approved of both the session musicians and the arrangements, but criticized Capaldi's lyrics as "simply absurd" or "rather embarrassingly sentimental", being at his best only on the cover of "Love Hurts", where "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. On the contrary, Classic Rock review lamented "too much disjointed dabbling and lack of cohesion" on "several cuts, sounding awkwardly like below-par leftovers from the previous album."




Track listing


All tracks composed by Jim Capaldi, except where indicated.

Side one
"Goodbye Love"
Jim Capaldi - vocals, drum machine
Ray Allen - saxophone
Steve Winwood - guitar, organ, piano, bass
Remi Kabaka - percussion
Rebop Kwaku Baah - percussion
"It's All Up to You"
Jim Capaldi - drums, vocals, percussion
Jess Roden - guitar
John "Rabbit" Bundrick - piano, clavinet
Phil Chen - bass
Harry Robinson - string arrangements
"Love Hurts" (Boudleaux Bryant)
Jim Capaldi - vocals
Chris Spedding - guitar
Steve Winwood - piano
Jean Roussel - electric piano, minimoog
Rosko Gee - bass
Gerry Conway - drums
Ray Allen - percussion
Harry Robinson - string arrangements
"Johnny Too Bad" (Trevor "Batman" Wilson, Winston Bailey, Roy Beckford, Derrick Crooks - The Slickers cover)
Jim Capaldi - vocals
Ray Allen - saxophone
Muscle Shoals Horns - horns
Pete Carr - lead guitar
Jimmy Johnson - rhythm guitar, horn arrangements
Peter Yarrow - acoustic guitar
Barry Beckett - piano, organ
David Hood - bass
Roger Hawkins - drums, spoons
Rebop Kwaku Baah - percussion
Remi Kabaka - percussion
"Short Cut Draw Blood"
Jim Capaldi - vocals, percussion
Pete Carr - lead guitar
Chris Spedding - rhythm guitar
Jimmy Johnson - electric guitar
Barry Beckett - piano
David Hood - bass
Roger Hawkins - drums
Rebop Kwaku Baah - percussion
Side two
"Living on a Marble"
Jim Capaldi - vocals, percussion
Chris Spedding - lead guitar
Jimmy Johnson - rhythm guitar
Pete Carr - acoustic guitar
Barry Beckett - piano
Steve Winwood - bass
Roger Hawkins - drums
"Boy with a Problem"
Jim Capaldi - vocals
Paul Kossoff - lead guitar
Jimmy Johnson - rhythm guitar
Pete Carr - acoustic guitar
Steve Winwood - synthesizer
Barry Beckett - piano
David Hood - bass
Roger Hawkins - drums
Rebop Kwaku Baah - percussion
Harry Robinson - string arrangements
"Keep On Trying"
Jim Capaldi - vocals
Ray Allen - saxophone
Rico Rodriguez - trombone
Phil - guitar
Steve Winwood - piano, organ
Rosko Gee - bass
Remi Kabaka - drums
Rebop Kwaku Baah - percussion
"Seagull"
Jim Capaldi - vocals
Steve Winwood - acoustic guitar, Mellotron, harpsichord
Chris Wood - 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.




2012 Reissue


In March 2012 Raven an Australian label reissued Short Cut Draw Blood along with The Contender as a 2 for 1 CD release with 8 bonus tracks, all of them previously released recordings: "Tricky Dicky Rides Again", "Sugar Honey", "If You Think You Know How to Love Me", "Good Night & Good Morning", "Talkin' Bout My Baby", "Still Talkin'", "Goodbye My Love", "Baby You're Not My Problem". The second disc included all the tracks from both the UK The Contender and its USA counterpart Daughter of the Night. The reissue was remastered by Warren Barnett and featured a booklet that discussed the making of both albums.




References






External links


Jim Capaldi's official website

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