Big Sugar (album)

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Big Sugar
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Studio album by
Big Sugar
ReleasedJanuary 1, 1992 [1]
Recorded1991
Genre Blues rock
Label Hypnotic Records [2]
Producer Tom Treumuth
Big Sugar chronology
Big Sugar
(1992)		 Five Hundred Pounds
(1993)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
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]

Contents

Critical reception

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

  1. "Sleep in Late" (Dave Wall, Andrew Whiteman)
  2. "Come Back Baby" (B.B. Arnold)
  3. "Motherless Children" (traditional)
  4. "So Many Roads" (Marshall Paul)
  5. "Bemsha Swing" (Denzil Best, Thelonious Monk)
  6. "Stardust" (Hoagy Carmichael, Mitchell Parish)
  7. "Groundhog Day" (Gordie Johnson)
  8. "Just About Sunrise" (Johnson)
  9. "Goodbye Train" (Johnson)
  10. "Nowhere to Go" (Colin Linden)
  11. "'Round Midnight" (Bernie Hanighen, Monk, Cootie Williams)
  12. "Devil Got My Woman" (Skip James)

Personnel

Big Sugar

Additional Personnel

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References

  1. ↑ "BIG SUGAR". bigsugar.com. Retrieved 11 August 2020.
  2. 1 2 Larkin, Colin (2006). The Encyclopedia of Popular Music. Vol. 1. MUZE. p. 601.
  3. 1 2 Big Sugar at AllMusic
  4. ↑ "Big Sugar | Biography & History". AllMusic.
  5. ↑ 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.
  6. ↑ "New Deal Is Sweet For Big Sugar". Billboard. Nielsen Business Media, Inc. August 31, 1996 – via Google Books.



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