Don't Lose Your Cool

This article is about the album by Albert Collins. For the song by Ted Hawkins, see Don't Lose Your Cool (song).

Don't Lose Your Cool
Studio album by Albert Collins
Released	1983
Studio	Red Label Recording, Winnetka, Illinois
Genre	Blues
Length	40:09
Label	Alligator
Producer	Bruce Iglauer, Dick Shurman, Albert Collins
Albert Collins chronology
Frostbite (1980) Don't Lose Your Cool (1983) Cold Snap (1986)

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[1]
The Penguin Guide to Blues Recordings	[2]

Don't Lose Your Cool is a studio album by the American musician Albert Collins, released in 1983 by Alligator Records.^[3][4]

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.^[5]) – 3:09
7. "Meltdown" (Collins) – 4:03
8. "Ego Trip" (Collins) – 4:32
9. "Quicksand" (Guitar Slim) – 3:28^[6]

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

References

1. "Don't Lose Your Cool - Albert Collins | Songs, Reviews, Credits | AllMusic". AllMusic. Retrieved 13 May 2021.
2. Russell, Tony; Smith, Chris (2006). The Penguin Guide to Blues Recordings. Penguin. p. 130. ISBN 978-0-140-51384-4.
3. "Albert Collins and the Ice Breakers/Don't Lose Your Cool". The Washington Informer. Vol. 19, no. 24. Apr 6, 1983. p. 21.
4. Takiff, Jonathan (19 July 1985). "Blues great Albert Collins was toiling away...". Features. The Philadelphia Inquirer. p. 62.
5. Albert Collins - Deluxe Edition (CD). Albert Collins. Chicago: Alligator Records. 1997. ALCD5601.
6. Don't Lose Your Cool (CD). Albert Collins. Chicago: Alligator Records. 1983. ALCD4730.

External links

• Alligator Records - Don't Lose Your Cool