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Talk to Your Daughter

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{{Infobox album

| name = Talk to Your Daughter

| type = studio

| artist = Robben Ford

| cover = Robben Ford - Talk to Your Daughter.jpg

| alt =

| released = 1988

| recorded = 1988

| venue =

| studio = Sounder 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

| length = 41:53

| label = Warner Bros.

| producer = Scott Ferguson, Robben Ford

| prev_title = The Inside Story

| prev_year = 1979

| next_title = Minor Elegance
with Joe Diorio

| next_year = 1989

}}

Talk to Your Daughter is a blues rock album by the American musician Robben Ford, released in 1988.{{cite news |last1=Duffy |first1=Thom |title=Music |work=Orlando Sentinel |date=7 Aug 1988 |department=Calendar |page=5}}{{cite news |title=The birth of new popularity |work=USA Today |date=4 Oct 1988 |page=4D}} The cover version of Albert King's "Born Under a Bad Sign" was used on the soundtrack to the Clint Eastwood movie Pink Cadillac.

Critical reception

{{Music ratings

| rev1 = AllMusic

| rev1Score = {{Rating|4|5}}{{AllMusic|class=album|id=r78244}}

|rev2 = The Penguin Guide to Blues Recordings

|rev2score = {{Rating|2|4}}{{cite book |last1=Russell |first1=Tony |last2=Smith |first2=Chris |title=The Penguin Guide to Blues Recordings |year=2006 |edition=|publisher=Penguin |isbn=978-0-140-51384-4|page=197}}

|rev3 = Windsor Star

|rev3score = A{{cite news |last1=Shaw |first1=Ted |title=Record Review |work=Windsor Star |date=17 Sep 1988 |page=C2}}

}}

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."

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

class="wikitable sortable plainrowheaders"
scope="col"|Chart (1988)

!scope="col"|Peak
position

Australian (Kent Music Report)62{{cite book|last=Kent|first=David|author-link=David Kent (historian)|title=Australian Chart Book 1970–1992|edition=illustrated|publisher=Australian Chart Book|location=St Ives, N.S.W.|year=1993|isbn=0-646-11917-6|page=115}}

Personnel

=Additional personnel=

  • Vince Denham – saxophones on "I Got Over It"
  • Brandon Fields – saxophones on "Wild About You (Can't Hold Out Much Longer)"
  • Mark Ford – harmonica on "Can't Let Her Go" and "I Got Over It"
  • Brian Mann – synthesizers on "Help the Poor"
  • Bill Payne – additional synthesizers on "Can't Let Her Go"
  • Jeff Porcaro – drums on "I Got Over It"

=Production=

  • Scott Ferguson – producer
  • Robben Ford – producer
  • Jeff Hendrickson – mixing, overdub engineer
  • Toby Wright – mixing
  • Mark Creamer – mixing, tracking engineer, overdub engineer
  • Geoff Gillette – mixing
  • Howie Weinberg – mastering
  • David Hentschel – tracking engineer, overdub engineer
  • Shep Lonsdale – tracking engineer, overdub engineer
  • Duncan Aldridge, Hal Sacks, Rick Slater, John Slattery – overdub engineers
  • Bob Fuojinski, Bob Levy, Larry Mah, Micajah Ryan, Bret Swain – assistant engineers
  • Joan Parker – production coordinator
  • Timothy White, Mike Russ – photography

References

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  • {{cite AV media notes

|title = Talk to Your Daughter

|title-link = Talk to Your Daughter

|others = Robben Ford

|year = 1988

|type = CD liner

|publisher = Warner Bros.

|id = 25647-2

|location = Burbank, CA

}}

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Category:Robben Ford albums

Category:1988 albums

Category:Warner Records albums

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