Laughin' & Cryin' with the Reverend Horton Heat

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Laughin' & Cryin' with the Reverend Horton Heat
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Studio album by The Reverend Horton Heat
Released September 1, 2009
Studio Audio Dallas, Dallas, Texas
Genre Rockabilly
Length48:10
Label Yep Roc
Producer Reverend Horton Heat, Tim Alexander
The Reverend Horton Heat chronology
20th Century Masters - The Millennium Collection: The Best of The Reverend Horton Heat
(2006) 20th Century Masters - The Millennium Collection: The Best of The Reverend Horton Heat2006
Laughin' & Cryin' with the Reverend Horton Heat
(2009)
REV
(2014) REV2014

Laughin' & Cryin' with the Reverend Horton Heat is The Reverend Horton Heat's tenth studio album.

The Reverend Horton Heat band

The Reverend Horton Heat is the stage name of American musician Jim Heath as well as the name of his Dallas, Texas-based psychobilly trio. Heath is a singer, songwriter and guitarist. A Prick magazine reviewer called Heath the "godfather of modern rockabilly and psychobilly".

Contents

Track listing

All songs written by Jim Heath except as noted.

  1. "Drinkin' and Smokin' Cigarettes" – 4:04
  2. "Ain't No Saguaro in Texas" – 3:41
  3. "Death Metal Guys" (Heath, Simmons, Wallace) – 3:20
  4. "River Ran Dry" – 2:40
  5. "Please Don't Take the Baby to the Liquor Store" (Wallace, Heath) – 2:53
  6. "Aw, the Humanity" – 4:40
  7. "Rural Point of View" – 3:30
  8. "Oh God! Doesn't Work in Vegas" – 4:28
  9. "Spacewalk" – 2:45
  10. "Beer Holder" – 3:48
  11. "Crazy Ex-Boyfriend" – 3:19
  12. "There's a Little Bit of Everything in Texas" (Ernest Tubb) – 2:24
  13. "Just Let Me Hold My Paycheck" – 4:26
  14. "Oh By Jingo!" (Lew Brown, Albert Von Tilzer) – 2:08

Personnel

Guitar fretted string instrument

The guitar is a fretted musical instrument that usually has six strings. It is typically played with both hands by strumming or plucking the strings with either a guitar pick or the finger(s)/fingernails of one hand, while simultaneously fretting with the fingers of the other hand. The sound of the vibrating strings is projected either acoustically, by means of the hollow chamber of the guitar, or through an electrical amplifier and a speaker.

Pedal steel guitar console-type of steel guitar with foot pedals to raise and lower the pitch of the strings

The pedal steel guitar is a console-type of steel guitar with pedals and levers added to enable playing more varied and complex music which had not been possible with antecedent steel guitar designs. Like other steel guitars, it shares the ability to play unlimited glissandi and deep vibrati—characteristics in common with the human voice. Pedal steel is most commonly associated with American country music.

Drum kit collection of drums and other percussion instruments

A drum kit — also called a drum set, trap set, or simply drums — is a collection of drums and other percussion instruments, typically cymbals, which are set up on stands to be played by a single player, with drumsticks held in both hands, and the feet operating pedals that control the hi-hat cymbal and the beater for the bass drum. A drum kit consists of a mix of drums and idiophones – most significantly cymbals, but can also include the woodblock and cowbell. In the 2000s, some kits also include electronic instruments. Also, both hybrid and entirely electronic kits are used.

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