Short Cut Draw Blood

Short Cut Draw Blood
Studio album by Jim Capaldi
Released	December 1975
Recorded	1974–75
Studio	Muscle Shoals Sound Studio, Sheffield, Alabama Island Studios, London
Genre	Rock
Length	44:06
Label	Island
Producer	Steve Smith, Jim Capaldi, Chris Blackwell
Jim Capaldi chronology
Whale Meat Again (1974) Short Cut Draw Blood (1975) The Contender (1978)
Singles from Short Cut Draw Blood
"It's All Up to You" Released: June 1975 "Love Hurts" Released: December 1975 "Goodbye Love" Released: June 1976 (not released in UK)

Short Cut Draw Blood is the third studio album by the British musician Jim Capaldi, released by Island Records in 1975. It marked a major turning point in Capaldi's career: it was his first album recorded after the breakup of Traffic, and more importantly it was his commercial breakthrough. While Capaldi's first two solo albums had been moderately successful in the United States (in fact, in Short Cut Draw Blood was his least successful album in the United States thus far, with both the album itself at number 193^[1] and the single "Love Hurts" barely scraping into the Billboard charts at number 97^[2]), Short Cut Draw Blood entered the charts in several other countries for the first time. This was particularly evident in his native United Kingdom; the single "It's All Up to You" at number 27, released a year before the album, became his first top 40 hit there, only to be overshadowed the following year by his cover of "Love Hurts", which went all the way to number 4.^[3]

The title of the album was conceived by co-producer Chris Blackwell.^[4]