Name: Straight Up!
Brand: Alligator Records
SKU: 52775
Price: 19.06 GBP
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Straight Up!

Rating

Album: Straight Up!
#	Song Title	Time
1)	I Could Deal With It
2)	I Can't Speak No Spanish (No Hablo Espa¤ol)
3)	I'm Just Lucky That Way
4)	Turn My Back on You
5)	Me and My Big Mouth
6)	You Gonna Lie
7)	Hey Gold Digger
8)	Homicide
9)	Too Close Together
10)	Gerontology
11)	Playboy Blues
12)	Is That It?
13)	On the Loose
14)	My Way or the Highway

Album: Straight Up!
#	Song Title	Time
1)	I Could Deal With It
2)	I Can't Speak No Spanish (No Hablo Espa¤ol)
3)	I'm Just Lucky That Way
4)	Turn My Back on You
5)	Me and My Big Mouth
6)	You Gonna Lie
7)	Hey Gold Digger
8)	Homicide
9)	Too Close Together
10)	Gerontology
11)	Playboy Blues
12)	Is That It?
13)	On the Loose
14)	My Way or the Highway

Performer Notes

Little Charlie & The Nightcats: Little Charlie Baty (guitar), Rick Estrin (harmonica, vocals), Ronnie James Weber (bass), Dobie Strange (drums).
Additional personnel: Rusty Zinn (guitar), John Firman (tenor saxophone), Jimmy Pugh (keyboards).
Producers: Little Charlie Baty, Rick Estrin.
Principally recorded at Bay View Studios, Richmond, California. Includes liner notes by Cub Koda.
All songs written or co-written by members of Little Charlie & The Nightcats except "Too Close Together" (Williamson) and "Playboy Blues" (J.D. Edwards).
Personnel: Rick Estrin (vocals, harmonica); Rusty Zinn, Charlie Baty (guitar); John Firman (tenor saxophone); Jimmy Pugh (keyboards); Dobie Strange (drums).
Audio Mixer: Tom Anderson .
Liner Note Author: Cub Koda.
Recording information: Bay View Studios, Richmond, CA; Prairie Sun Recording, Cotati, CA.
Photographer: Kent Lacin.
Unknown Contributor Role: Rick Estrin.
Straight Up! is a typically rollicking, humorous collection of updated Chicago blues from Little Charlie & the Nightcats. As with any of the of the band's albums, the quality of the material is slightly uneven, but the band's good-natured energy makes those shortcomings somewhat forgivable, especially if you are already a fan. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine