Flirting with the Universe

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Flirting With the Universe
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Studio album by The Rainmakers
Released 1994
Recorded August 1993 – April 1994 at Steve's basement, Kansas City, Missouri
Genre Pop rock
Length46:53
Label Mercury
Producer The Rainmakers
The Rainmakers chronology
The Best of the Rainmakers
(1993)
Flirting With the Universe
(1994)
Skin
(1996)

Flirting with the Universe is the fourth studio album by The Rainmakers, released in 1994. The album achieved the equivalent of gold record status in Norway in one month. [1]

The Rainmakers are a Kansas City, Missouri-based original rock band, fronted by Bob Walkenhorst, which had a small string of hits in the late 1980s and early 1990s in the United States and Europe, especially Norway.

Contents

Track listing

All tracks written by Bob Walkenhorst except where noted.

Bob Walkenhorst is a Kansas City-based singer, songwriter, musician, and painter. After growing up in his hometown of Norborne, Missouri, he became a founding member of the popular Midwestern U.S. roots rock band The Rainmakers. In the Kansas City area, he currently gives weekly performances and participates in art gallery shows. For some shows, he is joined by his daughter Una.

  1. "Another Guitar" – 4:25
  2. "Width of a Line" – 3:52
  3. "Fool's Gold" – 4:41
  4. "Window" (Steve Phillips) – 4:00
  5. "View from the Tower" – 4:27
  6. "Greatest Night of My Life" – 4:43
  7. "Wilder Side" (Steve Phillips) – 3:20
  8. "You Remind Me of Someone" – 2:52
  9. "Little Tiny World" – 4:07
  10. "Mystery Road" – 5:21
  11. "Spite" – 5:05

Personnel

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