Talk to Your Daughter

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Talk to Your Daughter
Robben Ford - Talk to Your Daughter.jpg
Studio album by
Released1988
Recorded1988
StudioSounder Recording (Chatsworth, CA)
Take One Studios (Burbank, CA)
The Complex (Los Angeles, CA)
Mad Hatter Studios (Los Angeles, CA)
Record One (Sherman Oaks, CA)
Smoketree (Chatsworth, CA)
Quad Recording Studios (New York City, NY)
Genre Blues rock
Length41:53
Label Warner Bros.
Producer Scott Ferguson, Robben Ford
Robben Ford chronology
The Inside Story
(1979)
Talk to Your Daughter
(1988)
Minor Elegance
with Joe Diorio

(1989)

Talk to Your Daughter is a blues rock album by the American musician Robben Ford, released in 1988. [1] [2] The cover version of Albert King's "Born Under a Bad Sign" was used on the soundtrack to the Clint Eastwood movie Pink Cadillac .

Contents

Critical reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
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The Penguin Guide to Blues Recordings Star full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [4]
Windsor Star A [5]

The Windsor Star wrote that the album "is one of the most challenging, enjoyable new releases of 1988... Talk To Your Daughter combines some traditional blues elements, as in 'Born Under a Bad Sign' and the marvellous title tune, with more adventurous things, like 'Help the Poor', to create an aural tapestry of bluesy music that is played with intensity and a strong sense of balance." [5]

Track listing

  1. "Talk to Your Daughter" (J. B. Lenoir) – 4:06
  2. "Wild About You (Can't Hold Out Much Longer)" (Walter Jacobs) – 3:46
  3. "Help the Poor" (Charles Singleton) – 5:37
  4. "Ain't Got Nothin' but the Blues" (Duke Ellington, Larry Fotine, Don George) – 4:34
  5. "Born Under a Bad Sign" (William Bell, Booker T. Jones) – 3:45
  6. "I Got Over It" (Ike Turner) – 3:22
  7. "Revelation" (Russell Ferrante, Lorraine Perry) – 6:21
  8. "Getaway" (Robben Ford) – 4:17
  9. "Can't Let Her Go" (Ford) – 5:36

Charts

Chart (1988)Peak
position
Australian (Kent Music Report)62 [6]

Personnel

Additional personnel

Production

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