Voodoo Highway

Voodoo Highway
Studio album by Badlands
Released	June 1991
Genre	Blues rock, Heavy metal
Label	Atlantic
Producer	James A. Ball, Jake E. Lee
Badlands chronology
Badlands (1989) Voodoo Highway (1991) Dusk (1998)

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Voodoo Highway is the second album of the band Badlands. After the first Badlands album, drummer Eric Singer left the band to join KISS, and was replaced by drummer Jeff Martin, who had previously sung lead vocals in the bands Surgical Steel and Racer X. Badlands bandmates Greg Chaisson and Jeff Martin later played together in the bands Blindside Blues Band and RedSea.

Track listing

All songs by Jake E. Lee and Ray Gillen, except were it noted.

1. "The Last Time"
2. "Show Me the Way"
3. "Shine On" (Greg Chaisson, Lee, Gillen)
4. "Whiskey Dust"
5. "Joe's Blues" (Lee)
6. "Soul Stealer"
7. "3 Day Funk"
8. "Silver Horses"
9. "Love Don't Mean a Thing"
10. "Voodoo Highway"
11. "Fire and Rain" (James Taylor)
12. "Heaven's Train" (Chaisson, Lee, Gillen)
13. "In a Dream" (Gillen)

Personnel

• Ray Gillen: lead vocals
• Jake E. Lee: guitar
• Greg Chaisson: bass guitar
• Jeff Martin: drums

Trivia

• Voodoo Highway includes a cover version of James Taylor's "Fire and Rain". Badlands would often perform soundchecks before a show using the song "Fire and Water," by Paul Rodgers' old band, Free. Once, Gillen misspoke during the soundcheck and asked for "Fire and Rain" instead. The band played Taylor's composition anyway, and Gillen sounded so good that they decided to record it.

• American Idol finalist Bo Bice sang "In a Dream" during competition in the 2005 season.^{[citation needed]}

• Voodoo Highway introduced the "Size 12 Boot" as one of Drummer Jeff Martin's "Instruments" during the title track.
• Voodoo Highway sings the theme song to the Total Drama series.

External links

• Album information at Black Sabbath Online