| Doo Dad | |
| Type: | studio |
| Artist: | Webb Wilder |
| Cover: | Doo Dad.album.jpg |
| Released: | 1991 |
| Genre: | Roots rock, rock, blues rock |
| Label: | Praxis/Zoo Entertainment |
| Producer: | R. S. Field |
| Prev Title: | Hybrid Vigor |
| Prev Year: | 1989 |
| Next Title: | Town & Country |
| Next Year: | 1995 |
Doo Dad is an album by the American roots rock musician Webb Wilder, released in 1991.[1] [2]
The album's single, "Tough It Out", peaked at No. 16 on the Billboard Mainstream Rock chart.[3] The album was promoted in part through a short film, "Horror Hayride", which was later included as part of Wilder's Corn Flicks video.[4]
The album was produced by R. S. Field.[5] It included guest appearances by Al Kooper and Sonny Landreth.[6] The cover photo was taken by James Flournoy Holmes.[7]
Trouser Press wrote that "Webb swaggers gloriously... The diverse menu includes the rousing boogie of 'Tough It Out', a heart-rending plea for forgiveness in the form of 'Everyday (I Kick Myself)', a spiffy display by [guitarist Donny 'The Twangler' Roberts] on the instrumental 'Sputnik' and, against all odds, an exciting version of the warhorse 'Baby Please Don’t Go'."[8] The Washington Post thought that the album's two covers were better than any of the Wilder originals, but conceded that "the quartet plays with more focused power than ever before."[9]
The Morning Call deemed the album "a heady mojo, full of Southern-fried rockin', stomping R&B; and Memphis twang."[10] Stereo Review called it "Hillbilly Gothic at its deadpan best."[11] The Chicago Tribune declared that "at its worst, this album sounds like Jethro Tull does roots rock."
AllMusic wrote that Wilder and his band "start from a basic blues style fused to rootsy rock, then shish-kebab the result with a skewered view of mundane existence." The Rolling Stone Album Guide praised the "rocking, witty and often moving sagas."