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| Released | September 21, 2004 | |||
| Recorded | On-U Sound Studios, London, England and Treehouse, Mansfield, CT | |||
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| Length | 53:23 | |||
| Label | Real World/Virgin | |||
| Producer | Skip McDonald, Adrian Sherwood | |||
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Champagne & Grits is the fourth album by Little Axe, released on September 21, 2004 by Real World Records and Virgin Records. [3] [4]
| No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
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| 1. | "Grinning in Your Face" | Son House, Skip McDonald | 3:57 |
| 2. | "Finger on the Trigger" | Skip McDonald, Adrian Sherwood, Mark Stewart | 5:09 |
| 3. | "Mean Things" | Skip McDonald, Mark Stewart | 6:17 |
| 4. | "The Way I See It" | Skip McDonald | 0:37 |
| 5. | "Walk on Water" | Skip McDonald, Adrian Sherwood | 4:49 |
| 6. | "Go Away Devil" | Skip McDonald, Adrian Sherwood | 4:43 |
| 7. | "Say My Name" | Skip McDonald, Shara Nelson | 4:44 |
| 8. | "Take Me Back to the Country" | Skip McDonald | 1:00 |
| 9. | "All in the Same Boat" | Chris Difford, Skip McDonald, Adrian Sherwood | 4:10 |
| 10. | "Living and Sleeping in a Dangerous Time" | Skip McDonald, Mark Stewart | 5:44 |
| 11. | "Will I Ever Get Back Home Again?" | Skip McDonald, Adrian Sherwood | 4:21 |
| 12. | "Cloud" | Skip McDonald, P. K. CLoud | 3:10 |
| 13. | "Sinners" | Justin Hinds, Huddie Ledbetter, Skip McDonald | 4:42 |
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| Region | Date | Label | Format | Catalog |
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| United States | 2004 | Real World/Virgin | CD | 7243 5 76746 2 1 |
| Europe | 2004 | Real World | CD | 708766 18877 2 3 |
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If You Want Loyalty Buy a Dog is the seventh album by Little Axe, released on October 24, 2011 by On-U Sound. It was the first album Skip McDonald produced without the aid of fellow Tackhead members Keith LeBlanc and Doug Wimbish.
