If You Want Loyalty Buy a Dog

If You Want Loyalty Buy a Dog is the seventh album by Little Axe, released on October 24, 2011 by On-U Sound.[3][4] It was the first album Skip McDonald produced without the aid of fellow Tackhead members Keith LeBlanc and Doug Wimbish.

If You Want Loyalty Buy a Dog
Studio album by Little Axe
Released	October 24, 2011 (2011-10-24)
Recorded	Channell One Studio, Jamaica, Livingston Studio, London, On-U Studio, Crouch End/Hornsey, London and Southern Studio, Wood Green, London
Genre	Electric blues, dub
Length	53:59
Label	On-U Sound
Producer	Skip McDonald, Adrian Sherwood
Little Axe chronology
Bought for a Dollar, Sold for a Dime (2010) If You Want Loyalty Buy a Dog (2011) Return (2013)

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	[1]
Uncut	[2]

Track listing

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Song to Sing"	Skip McDonald, Adrian Sherwood	3:19
2.	"Keep on Drinking"	Skip McDonald, Huddie Ledbetter	4:10
3.	"Come Here Dog and Get Your Bone"	Skip McDonald, Style Scott	4:17
4.	"I Got Da Blues"	Skip McDonald, Style Scott	4:12
5.	"Call It What You Like"	Skip McDonald, Style Scott	3:55
6.	"I Ain't Going Down"	Skip McDonald, Adrian Sherwood	4:15
7.	"Grace"	Traditional	3:59
8.	"Down and Dirty"	Skip McDonald, George Oban	3:47
9.	"Seeing Red"	Skip McDonald, Adrian Sherwood	3:46
10.	"Moaning and Groaning"	Skip McDonald, Adrian Sherwood	3:31
11.	"Garfield Elementary"	Skip McDonald, George Oban	3:14
12.	"National Style"	Skip McDonald, George Oban	3:20
13.	"Early in the Morning"	Skip McDonald, Style Scott	3:53
14.	"Where From Here?"	Skip McDonald, Style Scott	4:21

Personnel

Musicians Alan Glen – harmonica Skip McDonald – vocals, guitar, keyboards, producer, bass guitar (2, 7) George Oban – bass guitar (1, 6, 8, 9, 11, 12) Style Scott – drums Additional personnel Steve Barker – spoken word Dub Syndicate – backup band (4, 5, 10, 13) Madeline Edgehill – vocals (7) The Roots Radics – backup band (3, 14) Valerie Skeete – vocals (7)

Technical personnel Lincoln "Style" Scott – co-producer Adrian Sherwood – producer

Release history

Region	Date	Label	Format	Catalog
United Kingdom	2011	On-U Sound	CD	On-UCD1019

References

1. Anderson, Rick. "If You Want Loyalty Buy a Dog". Allmusic. Retrieved September 30, 2014.
2. columnist (2011). "Little Axe - If You Want Loyalty Buy a Dog". Uncut: 93.
3. "Skip Mcdonald: Discography". tackhead.com. 2004. Archived from the original on October 6, 2014. Retrieved September 30, 2014.
4. Parker, David (2001). "Album: Little Axe - 'If You Want Loyalty Buy a Dog'". skysaw.org. Retrieved September 30, 2014.

External links

• If You Want Loyalty Buy a Dog at Discogs (list of releases)