Fire on the Floor | ||||
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Released | October 14, 2016 [1] | |||
Genre | ||||
Length | 48:23 | |||
Label | Provogue/Mascot Label | |||
Producer | Oliver Leiber [4] | |||
Beth Hart chronology | ||||
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Review scores | |
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Source | Rating |
AllMusic | [2] |
Blues Rock Review | [5] |
Fire on the Floor is the eighth solo studio album by American singer-songwriter Beth Hart. It was released on October 14, 2016 in Europe, Australia, and New Zealand, and February 3, 2017 in the rest of the world. [6]
Hart wrote and recorded the songs for Fire on the Floor before the songs for her previous album Better Than Home was mixed. [4] Hart recorded with some musicians she had not performed with before, such as Michael Landau and Waddy Wachtel on electric guitar, and they recorded sixteen songs in three days, although the mixing took much longer. [7] Other artists performing on the album are Jim Cox on piano, Dean Parks on acoustic guitar, Brian Allen on bass, Rick Marotta on drums, and Ivan Neville on the Hammond B3. [8] [9] [10]
The album was Produced by Oliver Leiber and recorded by Niko Bolas. It debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard Blues Albums Chart, becoming her sixth number one album overall. [11]
All tracks are written by Beth Hart, except where noted.
No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
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1. | "Jazz Man" | 3:51 | |
2. | "Love Gangster" | 4:09 | |
3. | "Coca Cola" | 3:38 | |
4. | "Let's Get Together" | Hart, Rune Westberg | 3:39 |
5. | "Love Is a Lie" | 3:15 | |
6. | "Fat Man" | Hart, Glen Burtnik | 3:51 |
7. | "Fire on the Floor" | 5:12 | |
8. | "Woman You've Been Dreaming Of" | 4:22 | |
9. | "Baby Shot Me Down" | 3:22 | |
10. | "Good Day to Cry" | 4:32 | |
11. | "Picture in a Frame" | 4:39 | |
12. | "No Place Like Home" | 3:53 | |
Total length: | 48:09 |
No. | Title | Length |
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12. | "Tell Her You Belong to Me" (featuring Jeff Beck) | 4:10 |
Chart (2016) | Peak position |
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Austrian Albums Chart | 18 |
Dutch Albums Chart | 6 |
French Albums Chart | 58 |
German Albums Chart | 18 |
Norwegian Albums Chart | 28 |
Polish Albums Chart | 11 |
Swedish Albums Chart | 51 |
Swiss Albums Chart | 13 |
UK Albums Chart | 28 |
Chart (2017) | Peak position |
US Billboard 200 [12] | 115 |
US Billboard Blues Albums [13] | 1 |
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