Mink, Rat or Rabbit

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Mink, Rat, or Rabbit (1998)
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Studio album by The Detroit Cobras
Released February 24, 1998
Genre Garage rock
Length31:48
Label Sympathy for the Record Industry
Producer Al Sutton & The Detroit Cobras
The Detroit Cobras chronology
Mink, Rabbit or Rat
(1998)
Life, Love and Leaving
(2001) Life, Love and Leaving2001
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Mink, Rat or Rabbit is the first album by The Detroit Cobras, released 24 February 1998 (see 1998 in music).

The Detroit Cobras band that plays garage rock

The Detroit Cobras are an American garage rock band from Detroit, Michigan, formed in 1994.

This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1998.

Contents

The title quotes a line from Irma Thomas's "Hittin on Nothing" complaining that the singer has not received a promised mink coat.

Irma Thomas American soul and rhythm and blues singer

Irma Thomas is an American singer from New Orleans. She is known as the "Soul Queen of New Orleans".

Track listing

  1. Cha Cha Twist
  2. I'll Keep Holding On
  3. Putty (In Your Hands)
  4. Easier To Cry
  5. Bad Girl
  6. Summer (The Slum)
  7. Midnight Blues
  8. You Knows What To Do
  9. Can't Do Without You
  10. Hittin' On Nothing
  11. Out Of This World
  12. Chumbawa
  13. Breakaway

Personnel

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