Don't Lose Your Cool Explained

Don't Lose Your Cool
Type:	studio
Artist:	Albert Collins
Cover:	Albert_Collins_-_1983_-_Don't_Lose_Your_Cool.jpg
Released:	1983
Studio:	Red Label Recording, Winnetka, Illinois
Genre:	Blues
Length:	40:09
Label:	Alligator
Producer:	Bruce Iglauer, Dick Shurman, Albert Collins
Prev Title:	Frostbite
Prev Year:	1980
Next Title:	Cold Snap
Next Year:	1986

Don't Lose Your Cool is a studio album by the American musician Albert Collins, released in 1983 by Alligator Records.^{[1] [2]}

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.^[3]) – 3:09
7. "Meltdown" (Collins) – 4:03
8. "Ego Trip" (Collins) – 4:32
9. "Quicksand" (Guitar Slim) – 3:28^[4]

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

External links

• Alligator Records - Don't Lose Your Cool

Notes and References

1. News: Albert Collins and the Ice Breakers/Don't Lose Your Cool . The Washington Informer . 19 . 24 . Apr 6, 1983 . 21.
2. News: Takiff . Jonathan . Blues great Albert Collins was toiling away... . The Philadelphia Inquirer . 19 July 1985 . Features . 62.
3. Albert Collins - Deluxe Edition . . 1997 . CD . . ALCD5601 . .
4. Don't Lose Your Cool . . 1983 . CD . . ALCD4730 . .