Rapid City Muscle Car

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Rapid City Muscle Car
Studio album by Cherry Poppin' Daddies
Released	December 12, 1994
Genre	Rock Alternative rock Neo-swing
Length	53:53
Label	Space Age Bachelor Pad
Producer	Cherry Poppin' Daddies
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Cherry Poppin' Daddies chronology
Ferociously Stoned (1990) Rapid City Muscle Car (1994) Kids on the Street (1996)
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Rapid City Muscle Car is the second studio album by American rock band the Cherry Poppin' Daddies, released in 1994 on the band's own independent label Space Age Bachelor Pad Records.

Arguably the group's most musically eclectic album, the sound and style of Rapid City Muscle Car is heavily rooted in psychedelia and psychedelic rock, all while retaining the structure of a concept album.

Contents 1 Overview 2 Track listing 2.1 Previous availability 3 Credits 3.1 Cherry Poppin' Daddies 3.2 Additional musicians 3.3 The First Church of Sinatra 3.4 Production 4 References

[edit] Overview

Rapid City Muscle Car was structured around the Daddies' desire to create as unique a listening experience possible, making each track the total opposite of the last, though all fitting together under a common lyrical theme^[1]. A midway point between the band's punk rock roots and the more accessible recordings that would follow, the result is arguably the band's most musically eclectic work: in addition to the standard offering of swing ("Pink Elephant") and funk ("Equus"), Rapid City Muscle Car delves into ska punk ("Sockable Face Club"), rock and roll ("The Search"), country music ("Inertia Rhapsody"), psychedelia ("Chrysalis"), big band ("Come Back to Me") and neo-lounge ("Impossible Dream", "Skyline Drive"). A departure from the standard guitar-bass-drums-horns sound on their debut, the album makes extensive use of outside instruments, adding acoustic guitar, accordion, clarinets and vibraphones. A full big band orchestra is used on "Come Back to Me", one of the very few covers the Daddies ever recorded, taken from the 1965 Burton Lane/Alan Jay Lerner Broadway musical On a Clear Day You Can See Forever.

An interesting note in regard to the album's structure is its frequent juxtaposition of its genres and constant changes in tempo. For instance, the mellow accordion-and-acoustic guitar ballad "Lovers Understand" is followed by the brass-heavy rock song "Johanna of the Spirits" which is followed by the acoustic country tune "Inertia Rhapsody" which is followed by the hard rock of "Bobby Kennedy" and so on. According to the Daddies, the intent was to "whip the listener around as if he/ she was strapped into a roller coaster and experiencing stylistic G-forces"^[1].

Steve Perry has stated that this is his favorite of the Daddies' albums.^[2]

The album had two covers: the first featured bassist Dan Schmid walking a chicken, while the second (and most common) featured artwork from longtime Daddies friend Wayne Shellabarger, who designed many of the Daddies' posters, t-shirts and logos.

[edit] Track listing

All songs composed by Steve Perry, except where otherwise noted.

1. "The Search" – 2:46
2. "Sockable Face Club" – 3:46
3. "Chrysalis" – 4:09
4. "The Ding-Dong Daddy of the D-Car Line" – 3:34
5. "Equus" – 3:33
6. "Mister White Keys" – 3:08
7. "Skyline Drive" – 4:20
8. "Pink Elephant" – 3:42
9. "Hazel, South Dakota" – 3:55
10. "Lovers Understand" – 4:25
11. "Johanna of the Spirits" – 3:05
12. "Inertia Rhapsody" – 3:06
13. "Bobby Kennedy" – 3:09
14. "Come Back to Me" (Burton Lane, Alan Jay Lerner) – 2:40
15. "Impossible Dream" – 4:35

[edit] Previous availability

• The same recording of "The Ding-Dong Daddy of the D-Car Line" (then titled "Ding Dong Daddy") was first released on a 7" entitled "The Daddies" in 1992.

[edit] Credits

[edit] Cherry Poppin' Daddies

• Steve Perry – vocals
• Dang Oulette (Dan Schmid) – bass
• Dana Heitman – trumpet, trombone
• Chris Azorr – keyboards
• Brian West – drums, vibes, percussion
• Adrian Baxter – tenor saxophone, bass clarinet
• Jason Moss – lead guitar

[edit] Additional musicians

• Brooks Brown – alto saxophone, clarinet
• John Fohl – guitar
• James Phillips – tenor saxophone

[edit] The First Church of Sinatra

Featured on track 14:

• Tim Allums – trumpet
• Mark Berney – trumpet
• Dave Van Handel – trombone
• Glenn Bonney – trombone
• Wayne Conkey – bass trombone
• Ross Warren – alto saxophone
• Tim Willcox – alto saxophone
• James Phillips – tenor saxophone
• Richard Coon – baritone saxophone

[edit] Production

• Tracks 1 - 2, 4, 6 - 7, & 9 engineered and mixed by Bill Barnett at Gung Ho Studio
• Tracks 5, 8, 10, 12 - 15 engineered by Dana Heitman at Space Age Bachelor Pad Studio, mixed by Bill Barnett
• Track 3 recorded at Space Age Bachelor Pad Studio by Bob Levy
• Track 11 recorded at Dogfish by Drew Canulette

[edit] References

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