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Watch Your Step is a 1982 album by Ted Hawkins, a collection of previously recorded songs.[2][8]

Watch Your Step
Compilation album by Ted Hawkins
Released	1982
Recorded	1971–72
Studio	Eldorado Recording Studios, Los Angeles
Label	Rounder[1]
Producer	Bruce Bromberg[1] Dennis Walker
Ted Hawkins chronology
Watch Your Step (1982) Happy Hour (1986)

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[2]
Robert Christgau	A−[3]
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music	[4]
The Line of Best Fit	7/10[5]
The New Rolling Stone Record Guide	[6]
Tom Hull – on the Web	B+ ()[7]

Release

At the time of the album's release, Hawkins was a guest of the California State Medical Facility at Vacaville.[9]

Critical reception

Trouser Press wrote: "Teaching a mighty acoustic lesson in roots music, Hawkins inhabits that secular place just outside the churchyard where gospel, folk and soul meet."[10] Robert Christgau wrote that "these little dramas of passion, tenderness and betrayal are stamped with the sin-and-redemption of a lived life."[3] The New Rolling Stone Record Guide wrote that "soul and blues fans need to hear this, if only to restore their faith in the dying art of emotional conviction."[6]

Track listing

All songs were written by Theodore Hawkins, Jr. (i.e. Ted Hawkins); who also sang and played guitar on all of them.[11]

1. "Watch Your Step" – Acoustic version
2. "Bring It Home Daddy"
3. "If You Love Me"
4. "Don't Lose Your Cool"
5. "The Lost Ones"
6. "Who Got My Natural Comb?"
7. "Peace & Happiness"
8. "Sweet Baby"
9. "Stop Your Crying"
10. "Put In a Cross"
11. "Sorry You're Sick"
12. "Watch Your Step" – Full band version
13. "TWA"
14. "I Gave Up All I Had"
15. "Stay Close to Me"

Personnel

According to an early vinyl release:[11]

• Ted Hawkins – guitar, vocals
• Elizabeth Hawkins – vocals on "Don't Lose Your Cool" and "I Gave Up All I Had"
• Phillip Walker – lead guitar on 2, 6, 8, 12
• Arthur Woods – piano on 2, 6, 8, 12
• Ollie "Count" Gaines – bass on 2, 8, 12
• Dennis Walker – bass on "Who Got My Natural Comb?"
• Donny Tucker – drums on 2, 6, 8, 12
• David Majal Li – saxophone on 2, 6, 8, 12
• Melvin Moore – trumpet on 2, 6, 8, 12
• Ina Bea Walker and Jimmy Grisby – backing vocals on "Bring It Home Daddy"

References

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