MotorCycle

For the 1969 album, see Motor-Cycle (album).

MotorCycle
Studio album by Daniel Amos
Released	1993
Studio	The Golden Recording Room, Huntington Beach, California Neverland Studios, Cerritos, California McCrums, Whittier, California
Genre	Neo-psychedelia, alternative rock
Label	BAI
Producer	Terry Scott Taylor, Jerry Chamberlain, Daniel Amos
Daniel Amos chronology
Kalhöun (1991) MotorCycle (1993) BibleLand (1994)

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[1]

MotorCycle is the tenth studio album by Christian alternative rock band Daniel Amos, issued in 1993 on BAI Records. It was the band's first album under the Daniel Amos moniker - as opposed to the shortened DA - since Vox Humana in 1984.

The album saw the band temporarily shift their sound to neo-psychedelia and saw the return of longtime guitarist Jerry Chamberlain. The album was dedicated to the memory of singer-songwriter Mark Heard, who died in 1992. Writing for AllMusic, J. Edward Keyes described the album as "meticulously crafted, haunting, and beautiful beyond words ... a psych-pop tour de force." ^[2]

"Grace is the Smell of Rain" was later rerecorded by lead singer Terry Scott Taylor's other band, the Lost Dogs, for their 2004 album MUTT .

Track listing

1. "Banquet at the World's End" (words and music by Taylor) (3:47)
2. "Traps, Ensnares" (words and music by Taylor/Chamberlain) (3:49)
3. "Hole in the World" (words and music by Taylor) (5:32)
4. "(What's Come) Over Me" (words and music by Taylor) (3:48)
5. "Buffalo Hills" (words and music by Taylor) (4:24)
6. "Guilty" (words and music by Taylor) (4:35)
7. "Motorcycle" (words by Taylor, music by Taylor/Flesch/Chandler) (3:33)
8. "Wonderful" (words by Taylor/Chamberlain/McCall, music by Taylor/Chamberlain) (2:16)
9. "So Long" (words and music by Taylor) (0:56)
10. "My Frontier" (words and music by Taylor) (3:48)
11. "Grace is the Smell of Rain" (words by Taylor, music by Taylor/Chamberlain) (4:01)
12. "Noelle" (words and music by Taylor) (2:43)
13. "Wise Acres" (words and music by Taylor) (2:14)
14. "So Long Again" (words by Taylor, music by Taylor/Chamberlain) (2:53)

Personnel

• Jerry Chamberlain — lead and rhythm guitars, lap-steel guitar, electric sitar, backing vocals, lead vocal on "Wonderful", cover concept
• Tim Chandler — bass guitar and backing vocals
• Greg Flesch — lead and rhythm guitars, pan flute, and squeeze box
• Ed McTaggart — drums, percussion, backing vocals, art direction
• Terry Scott Taylor — guitars, harmonica, lead vocals, backing vocals, cover concept
• Gene Eugene — piano, audio engineer
• Steve Hindalong — additional percussion
• Buckeye Dan Michaels — trumpet
• Rob Watson — piano, organ, and synthesizer
• Sharon McCall — backing vocals
• Bob Moon — additional engineer
• Dave Hackbarth — additional engineer
• Chris Colbert — additional engineer
• The Golden Recording Room, Huntington Beach, California — recording location, mixing location
• Neverland Studios, Cerritos, California — recording location
• McCrums, Whittier, California — recording location
• Doug Doyle — mastering
• Digital Brothers — mastering location
• Bruce Heavin — cover concept, illustration
• Daniel Amos — musical arrangements
• Wax Lips Studios — pre-production demo recording location

References

1. MotorCycle at AllMusic
2. Keyes, J. Edward. "Daniel Amos - Motor Cycle". AllMusic. AllMusic, Netaktion LLC. Retrieved June 20, 2020.