Big Sugar (album)
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Big Sugar | ||||
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Studio album by | ||||
Released | January 1, 1992[1] | |||
Recorded | 1991 | |||
Genre | Blues rock | |||
Label | Hypnotic[2] | |||
Producer | Tom Treumuth | |||
Big Sugar chronology | ||||
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Source | Rating |
AllMusic | mixed [3] |
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Big Sugar is the eponymous debut album by Canadian rock band Big Sugar, released 1992 on Hypnotic Records.[4][5][6]
Critical reception
[edit]AllMusic wrote that "Gordie Johnson himself pens the discs two highlights: both 'Groundhog Day' and 'Goodbye Train' feature funky, lurching rhythms and muscular guitar work that offer just the right blend of originality and familiarity."[3]
Track listing
[edit]- "Sleep in Late" (Dave Wall, Andrew Whiteman)
- "Come Back Baby" (B.B. Arnold)
- "Motherless Children" (traditional)
- "So Many Roads" (Marshall Paul)
- "Bemsha Swing" (Denzil Best, Thelonious Monk)
- "Stardust" (Hoagy Carmichael, Mitchell Parish)
- "Groundhog Day" (Gordie Johnson)
- "Just About Sunrise" (Johnson)
- "Goodbye Train" (Johnson)
- "Nowhere to Go" (Colin Linden)
- "'Round Midnight" (Bernie Hanighen, Monk, Cootie Williams)
- "Devil Got My Woman" (Skip James)
Personnel
[edit]Big Sugar
[edit]- Gordie Johnson: Guitars, vocals
- Terry Wilkins: Bass, vocals
- Al Cross: Drums
Additional Personnel
[edit]- Patrick Ballentyne, Andrew Whiteman: Acoustic guitars, vocals
- Nick Gotham, Gene Hardy, Johnny Johnson: Saxophone
- Jim Bish: Flute
- Ken Whiteley: Mandolin
- Greg Beresford: Percussion
- Kate Fenner, David Wall: Additional vocals
- Beresford, Fenner, Hardy, Wall and Whiteman all appear "Courtesy of the Bourbon Tabernacle Choir" (according to liner notes)
References
[edit]- ^ "BIG SUGAR". bigsugar.com. Retrieved 11 August 2020.
- ^ a b Larkin, Colin (2006). The Encyclopedia of Popular Music. Vol. 1. MUZE. p. 601.
- ^ a b Big Sugar at AllMusic
- ^ "Big Sugar | Biography & History". AllMusic.
- ^ Barclay, Michael; Jack, Ian A. D.; Schneider, Jason (June 14, 2011). Have Not Been the Same: The CanRock Renaissance, 1985-1995. ECW Press. ISBN 9781554909681 – via Google Books.
- ^ "New Deal Is Sweet For Big Sugar". Billboard. Nielsen Business Media, Inc. August 31, 1996 – via Google Books.