Haircut (album)

The album was produced by Terry Manning and the Delaware Destroyers.[8] "Want Ad Blues" is a cover of the John Lee Hooker song.[9] "Gone Dead Train" was written by Jack Nitzsche.[10] Thorogood wrote "Baby Don't Go".[11] The album cover art is by Peter Bagge.[12]

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[13]
Calgary Herald	B[14]
The Indianapolis Star	[15]
The Penguin Guide to Blues Recordings	[16]
The Philadelphia Inquirer	[10]
Windsor Star	B+[17]

The Windsor Star wrote that "the guitar-slinging motor mouth offers another round of stinging and rocking blues, featuring that consistently fat sound with which his band has made its trademark style."[17] The Calgary Herald deemed Haircut "boogie blues and rock 'n' roll ... And, yep, he hasn`t changed a thing."[14] The Colorado Springs Gazette-Telegraph opined that "since shtick is exactly what Thorogood's become reduced to, the only phrase that comes to mind listening to this is, 'get a real job'."[18]

The Canadian Press called it "another slice of devil-may-care, comically anti-authoritarian riff rock."[19] The Boston Globe concluded that "Thorogood doesn't gain any dramatic ground, but his loyalty to his favorite idioms remains genuine."[11] The Indianapolis Star praised the "stark, deliberative" "Killer's Bluze".[15]

1. "Get a Haircut" (David Avery, Bill Birch) – 4:12
2. "Howlin' for My Baby" (Willie Dixon, Howlin' Wolf) – 5:14
3. "Killer's Bluze" (Dex Rogers) – 6:10
4. "Down in the Bottom" (Dixon) – 4:03
5. "I'm Ready" (Dixon) – 3:36
6. "Cops and Robbers" (Bo Diddley) – 4:50
7. "Gone Dead Train" (Jack Nitzsche, Russ Titelman) – 4:07
8. "Want Ad Blues" (John Lee Hooker) – 5:06
9. "My Friend Robert" (Patrick Sky) – 2:30
10. "Baby Don't Go" (George Thorogood) – 3:24

The following personnel are credited on the album: