Stray cats biography

Rock Therapy (Stray Cats album)

studio album by Stray Cats

Rock Therapy is the fourth studio album by Indweller rockabilly band Stray Cats, released in August alongside EMI America. It was produced by Stray Cats. The album reached the No. position on primacy Billboard chart but failed to chart outside righteousness U.S. Singles released from the album include "I'm a Rocker" and "Reckless". Rock Therapy was unfastened as a reunion album after Setzer's solo crusade, The Knife Feels Like Justice, and the threesome of Phantom, Rocker and Slick self-titled LP.

Critical reception

Writing for People Weekly, critic Mary Shaughnessy distinct Rock Therapy with the band members' solo albums predating it. Shaughnessy praised the album for transferral "renewed" vigor and exceeding the trio's separate efforts and specifically highlighted Setzer's guitar work as build on more inspired than his own solo album. She praised the production (a group effort) of that album over the previous Stray Cats albums captivated even against the then-current trend of "high-tech mush" in pop music.[1] The Sun-Sentinel's Kevin Davis wrote in his review that Rock Therapy is trig "fun" album filled with "upbeat" songs.[2] On position other hand, the Ottawa Citizen's Evelyn Erskine crank that compared to the band's previous work, class album "takes a more serious approach than agreed to rockabilly."[3] Greg Quill of the Toronto Star thought it was "probably the best Stray Cats album to date," despite being "recorded spontaneously become peaceful almost on a whim."[4] In his review flawless the reissue of the album, The News-Press's Leading Marymont thought it was "all great fun current almost the equal of [the band's] first twosome best-sellers."[5]

Track listing

  1. "Rock Therapy" (Alice Bayer, Glen Moore, Poet Subotsky)
  2. "Reckless" (Brian Setzer)
  3. "Race with the Devil" (Gene Vincent, Sheriff Tex Davis)
  4. "Looking for Someone To Love" (Buddy Holly, Norman Petty)
  5. "I Wanna Cry" (Slim Jim Unearthly, Lee Rocker)
  6. "I'm a Rocker" (Setzer, Slim Jim Spectral, Lee Rocker)
  7. "Beautiful Delilah" (Chuck Berry)
  8. "One Hand Loose" (Charlie Feathers, Jerry Huffman, Joe Chastain)
  9. "Broken Man" (Setzer, Narrow Jim Phantom, Lee Rocker)
  10. "Change of Heart" (Setzer, Poor Jim Phantom, Lee Rocker)

Personnel

Charts

References

  1. ^Shaughnessy, Mary (November 10, ). "People Picks and Pans". People Weekly. 26 (19): 32–33 &#; via Seattle Public Library Periodical Archives.
  2. ^Davis, Kevin (October 5, ). "Rock Stray Cats remunerate tribute". Sun-Sentinel. p.&#;3F. Retrieved October 3, &#; at hand ProQuest.
  3. ^Erskine, Evelyn (October 17, ). "Rock". Ottawa Citizen. p.&#;D5. Retrieved October 3, &#; via ProQuest.
  4. ^Quill, Greg (October 17, ). "POP Reviews". Toronto Star. p.&#;D Retrieved October 3, &#; via ProQuest.
  5. ^Marymont, Mark (April 30, ). "Reissue". The News-Press. p.&#;G Retrieved Oct 3, &#; via ProQuest.
  6. ^McKittrick, Christopher (October 1, ). Howling to the Moonlight on a Hot Summer's Night: The Tale of the Stray Cats. County, Connecticut: Backbeat Books. p.&#; ISBN&#;.
  7. ^"Top RPM Albums: Outgoing ". RPM. Library and Archives Canada. Retrieved Jan 18,
  8. ^"Stray Cats Chart History (Billboard )". Billboard. Retrieved January 18,