Don't Lose Your Cool
Studio album by
Albert Collins
Released1983
StudioRed Label Recording, Winnetka, Illinois
GenreBlues
Length40:09
LabelAlligator
ProducerBruce Iglauer, Dick Shurman, Albert Collins
Albert Collins chronology
Frostbite
(1980)		 Don't Lose Your Cool
(1983)		 Cold Snap
(1986)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[1]
The Penguin Guide to Blues Recordings[2]

Don't Lose Your Cool is a studio album by the American musician Albert Collins, released in 1983 by Alligator Records.[3][4]

Track listing

  1. "Get to Gettin'" (Big Walter Price) – 3:12
  2. "My Mind Is Trying to Leave Me" (Percy Mayfield) – 7:42
  3. "Broke" (Chuck Higgins) – 4:12
  4. "Don't Lose Your Cool" (Collins) – 4:39
  5. "When a Guitar Plays the Blues" (Harvard Hables, Roy Lee Johnson) – 5:12
  6. "But I Was Cool" (Oscar Brown, Jr.[5]) – 3:09
  7. "Meltdown" (Collins) – 4:03
  8. "Ego Trip" (Collins) – 4:32
  9. "Quicksand" (Guitar Slim) – 3:28[6]

Personnel

  • Albert Collins - guitar, vocals
The Ice Breakers
  • Johnny Gayden - bass
  • Casey Jones - drums, vocals
  • Larry Burton - guitar
  • Chris Foreman - keyboards
  • A.C. Reed - tenor saxophone
  • Abb Locke, Dino Spells - alto and tenor saxophone
Technical
  • Fred Breitberg - engineer, mixing
  • Michael Weinstein - photography

References

  1. ↑ "Don't Lose Your Cool - Albert Collins | Songs, Reviews, Credits | AllMusic". AllMusic. Retrieved 13 May 2021.
  2. ↑ Russell, Tony; Smith, Chris (2006). The Penguin Guide to Blues Recordings. Penguin. p. 130. ISBN 978-0-140-51384-4.
  3. ↑ "Albert Collins and the Ice Breakers/Don't Lose Your Cool". The Washington Informer. Vol. 19, no. 24. Apr 6, 1983. p. 21.
  4. ↑ Takiff, Jonathan (19 July 1985). "Blues great Albert Collins was toiling away...". Features. The Philadelphia Inquirer. p. 62.
  5. ↑ Albert Collins - Deluxe Edition (CD). Albert Collins. Chicago: Alligator Records. 1997. ALCD5601.{{cite AV media notes}}: CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) (link)
  6. ↑ Don't Lose Your Cool (CD). Albert Collins. Chicago: Alligator Records. 1983. ALCD4730.{{cite AV media notes}}: CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) (link)


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