Calm Down Juanita (album)

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Calm Down Juanita
CDJ Calm Down Juanita cover.jpg
Studio album by
Released 1998
Genre Alternative rock, Psychedelic rock
Length34:03
Label Echo Records
Producer Ty Willmann and Steve Wilmans
Calm Down Juanita chronology
Calm Down Juanita
(1998)
Undertown
(2002)

Calm Down Juanita is the eponymous first album by psychedelic rock group Calm Down Juanita, released in 1998 through Echo Records. The album was recorded entirely at the Fremont House in Seattle, Washington on 4-track cassette. Ty Willman played keyboard and guitar and sang vocals, while Kevin Guess played drums, keyboard, and loops. [1]

Contents

This release features Sweet Water bassist Cole Peterson, who wrote one song on the album, Girlfriend, on which Willman's fellow Green Apple Quick Step member, Mari Anne Braeden, plays bass. Leigh Stone did vocals on Aerospace Runway. Lobotomy was co-written by X bassist John Doe and Willman and featured Doe on vocals and bass. Guess both wrote and sang Touchin' Myself, which features an unusual lineup, with drummer Josh Freese on bass guitar, guitarist Stone Gossard on drums, and Riff Raff on vinyl and samples.

Monsters, featuring model Camellia Clouse on vocals and Critters Buggin saxophonist Skerik on sax, was mixed and mastered by Martin Feveyear It was produced by Ty Willman and Steve Wilmans and released in 1998 on Willman's label, Echo Records, [1]

Track listing

All songs by Calm Down Juanita

No.TitleLength
1."sundays"4:03
2."girlfriend"1.51
3."aerospace runway"4:23
4."hooker for attention"4:05
5."monsters"3:01
6."lobotomy/touchin' myself"17:07

Personnel

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 Calm Down Juanita (CD Liner). Calm Down Juanita. Seattle, Washington, US: Echo Records. 1998. inside front cover.{{cite AV media notes}}: CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) (link)