Pushing the Salmanilla Envelope | ||||
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Released | June 10, 1997 | |||
Recorded | 1997 | |||
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Length | 45:16 | |||
Label | Rocket | |||
Producer | Steven Haigler | |||
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Pushing the Salmanilla Envelope is an album by the American band Jimmie's Chicken Shack. [2] [3] It was released in 1997. [4] The album sold more than 200,000 copies. [5] The band supported the album by opening for Everclear on a North American tour. [6]
The title is a word play of "Pushing the envelope", salmonella, and manila envelope.
The Washington Post wrote that the band "combines art-rock and hard-rock with a muscular rhythm section that adds a surging, funk-flavored bottom in the vein of the Red Hot Chili Peppers and Living Colour." [7]
All tracks by Jimi Haha, Jim McD, Jim Chaney & Che Lemon
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