01	I Got Something To Say						03:51
	02	Unsung Hero Of The Blues						06:01
	03	Electra Blues						05:52
	04	If It's The Blues						08:01
	05	Firebrand Rebel						04:24
	06	Blue Boogie						03:55
	07	You Can't Be Everywhere At Once						06:12
	08	All I Want To Do Is Cry						10:09
	09	Deeper In The Blues						04:42
	10	You Don't Miss What						04:07

Electra Blues
Date of Release Aug 23, 1994

All songs - Rick Derringer

Rick Derringer - Guitar, Vocals
Andy Doerschuk - Drums

1994 CD Shrapnel 2023
1994 CS Shrapnel 2023


Rick Derringer
Born Aug 5, 1947 in Celina, OH
Styles Pop/Rock, Hard Rock, Blues-Rock, Rock & Roll

It seems like Rick Derringer has been on the rock & roll scene forever - actually, it's only been since 1965, which makes him one of the more enduring veterans of his generation. Derringer's work with his band the McCoys in his mid-teens, highlighted by the bubblegum anthem "Hang On Sloopy," gave him a claim to low-level rock & roll immortality, and his subsequent playing with Johnny (and later Edgar) Winter provided him with a degree of credibility that a lot of guitar players can only envy, especially after the release of the Edgar Winter live double album Roadwork.
Derringer began getting production experience with the McCoys, but they were never able to overcome their bubblegum rock image, and by the end of the 1960s, Derringer and his brother Randy were recruited by Johnny Winter into his band, with Derringer playing guitar and also producing. He emerged as a solo artist in the wake of his playing with Edgar Winter's White Trash. Derringer first became popular in his own right during the early/middle 1970s, beginning with a new version of his own "Rock N' Roll Hoochie Koo" (which Johnny Winter had covered for him a few years earlier) off Derringer's heavy metal-influenced debut album All American Boy. Derringer soon had his own band, called Derringer, on the road - although his guitarist and bassist, Danny Johnson and Kenny Aaronson, left in 1977 to form Axis - and within a couple of years had established himself as a popular favorite. Derringer's recorded history was somewhat spotty, however, as his record sales never matched his favor with concert audiences - a huge gap also existed between releases, which didn't bother him; even in the late 1990s, Derringer plays close to 200 shows a year. He spent most of the late 1970s and 1980s, however, as a producer, working with artists as diverse as Bette Midler, Kiss, Meat Loaf, Cyndi Lauper, Barbra Streisand, and Weird Al Yankovic.

Derringer is known for his hard-rocking live shows, which don't necessarily translate well to recordings, or lend themselves to much originality. As he neared age 50 in the 1990s, however, he had mellowed, and this showed when he began recording again for Shrapnel Records in 1993 with the albums Back to the Blues and Electra Blues. Years of fair to average rock and adult contemporary albums followed, but in 2002 Derringer did an about face and tried his hands at jazz with the adventurous Free Ride. - Bruce Eder

1974 All American Boy Blue Sky
1975 Spring Fever Blue Sky
1976 Derringer Blue Sky
1976 The Glass Derringer LA
1977 Live in Cleveland Blue Sky
1977 Sweet Evil Blue Sky
1977 Live Blue Sky
1978 If You Weren't So Romantic I'd Shoot You Blue Sky
1979 Guitars and Women Razor & Tie
1980 Face to Face Blue Sky
1983 Good Dirty Fun Passport
1993 Back to the Blues Blues Bureau
1994 Electra Blues Shrapnel
1996 Required Rocking Sony Special
1998 Blues Deluxe Blues Bureau
2000 Jackhammer Blues Blues Bureau
2001 DBA SPV
2002 Take Two Sony Special
2002 Free Ride Beyond
Outside Stuff Mercury