Mourning Widows (album)

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Mourning Widows
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ReleasedDecember 16, 1998
Recorded1997-1998
Genre Rock
Length1:07:59
Label Bruno Graffiti Records (US)
Polydor Records (Japan)
Mourning Widows chronology
Mourning Widows
(1998)
Furnished Souls for Rent
(2000)
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Mourning Widows is an album by Mourning Widows, a project led by former Extreme guitarist Nuno Bettencourt. The album was first released by Polydor Records in Japan and later in the United States.

Mourning Widows was a musical project led by former Extreme guitarist Nuno Bettencourt. The band was formed in 1997, and they released two albums during their career. Despite not being widely released in the United States, both albums were successful in Japan. Bettencourt formed the band after the moderate success of his 1996 solo album, Schizophonic. The band's sound went back to a funkier guitar-driven rock reminiscent of Extreme, while still having post-grunge and alternative influences. After the end of the Furnished Souls For Rent tour, in 2001, Nuno decided to dismiss the band and released a record as Population 1, mostly recorded by himself. That became the name of his new band too, which would later become DramaGods.

Extreme (band) American rock band

Extreme is an American rock band, currently headed by frontman Gary Cherone and guitarist Nuno Bettencourt. The band reached the height of their popularity in the late 1980s and early 1990s with original line-up Gary Cherone, Nuno Bettencourt, Paul Geary and Patrick Badger.

Nuno Bettencourt musician, singer-songwriter, guitarist

Nuno Duarte Gil Mendes Bettencourt is a Portuguese-American guitarist, singer-songwriter, and record producer. He became known as the lead guitarist of the Boston rock band Extreme. He has also recorded a solo album as well as having founded bands including Mourning Widows, Population 1, DramaGods, The Satellite Party. In 2007 he also reunited with Extreme to record new music and tour.

Track listing

All tracks written by Nuno Bettencourt, except where noted.

  1. "All Automatic" – 6:53
  2. "Paint the Town Red" – 4:54
  3. "The Temp" – 4:33
  4. "The Air You That You Breathe" – 4:40
  5. "I Wanna Be Your Friend" – 7:07
  6. "Hotel Asylum" – 5:52
  7. "Over & Out" – 4:50
  8. "Love Is a Cigarette" – 6:18
  9. "Too Late" – 5:02
  10. "True Love in the Galaxy" (Bettencourt, Anthony J. Resta) – 6:55
  11. "Sex In a Jar" (demo) – 5:41
  12. "And the Winner is..." (demo) – 5:23

Personnel

The bass guitar is a plucked string instrument similar in appearance and construction to an electric or an acoustic guitar, except with a longer neck and scale length, and typically four to six strings or courses. Since the 1960s, the bass guitar has largely replaced the double bass in popular music.


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