Nantucket (album)

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Nantucket
Nantucket LP.jpg
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Released1978
Recorded1977
Genre Hard rock
Length36:20
Label Epic
Producer Win Kutz
Nantucket chronology
Nantucket
(1978)
Your Face or Mine?
(1979)

Nantucket is the debut release by North Carolina music group, Nantucket. It includes the hit single "Heartbreaker", which helped this album make the Billboard charts and sell around 200,000 copies. [1] Other featured songs include "She's No Good", "Born in a Honky Tonk", "Girl, You Blew a Good Thing" and "Quite Like You". Norton Buffalo from the Steve Miller Band has a harp (harmonica) solo on the song "Never Gonna Take Your Lies". Nantucket was released on compact disc by re-issue label Wounded Bird Records in 2003.

Contents

Track listing

  1. "Heartbreaker" (Redd) – 3:53
  2. "Never Gonna Take Your Lies" (Redd) – 3:49
  3. "Real Romance" (Redd) – 4:08
  4. "She's No Good" (Redd) – 3:27
  5. "Born in a Honky Tonk" (Redd) – 3:21
  6. "It's Gettin' Harder" (Redd) – 3:34
  7. "Girl, You Blew a Good Thing" (Redd) – 3:30
  8. "Spring Fever" (Redd) – 4:45
  9. "Quite Like You" (Redd) – 2:29
  10. "What's the Matter with Loving You" (Redd) – 3:24

Personnel

Additional musician

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References

  1. Nantucket (Official Site) - Bio, Retrieved March 15, 2017.