Red Card (album)

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Red Card
Red Card (Streetwalkers album).jpg
Studio album by
ReleasedMay 1976
Recorded1976
StudioScorpio Sound, London
Genre Blues-rock, hard rock
Label Vertigo (UK)
Mercury (USA)
Producer Streetwalkers
Streetwalkers chronology
Downtown Flyers
(1975)
Red Card
(1976)
Vicious But Fair
(1977)
Professional ratings
Review scores
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Christgau's Record Guide B [2]

Red Card was the third[ citation needed ] and most successful studio album by the UK rock group Streetwalkers, which made the #20 in the UK album charts. [3] The album features the lineup of Roger Chapman, Charlie Whitney, Bobby Tench of The Jeff Beck Group and Hummingbird, Nicko McBrain, who later played drums with Iron Maiden and bassist Jon Plotel. This groove-heavy album [4] was released in the UK by Vertigo and in the United States by Mercury during 1976 and remains a much respected album by many.

Contents

Track listing

All tracks composed by Roger Chapman and John “Charlie” Whitney; except where indicated

No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Run for Cover" 5:50
2."Me an' Me Horse an' Me Rum"Roger Chapman, John "Charlie" Whitney, Bobby Tench 4:06
3."Crazy Charade"Roger Chapman, John "Charlie" Whitney, Bobby Tench5:32
4."Daddy Rolling Stone" Otis Blackwell 3:17
5."Roll Up, Roll Up" 3:34
6."Shotgun Messiah"Roger Chapman, John “Charlie” Whitney, Bobby Tench4:52
7."Between Us" 3:52
8."Decadence Code" 6:41/ 9:11
Total length:41:26

Personnel

Notes

  1. Dougan, John. "Red Card - Streetwalkers | AllMusic". allmusic.com. Retrieved 25 June 2011.
  2. Christgau, Robert (1981). "Consumer Guide '70s: S". Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies . Ticknor & Fields. ISBN   089919026X . Retrieved 13 March 2019 via robertchristgau.com.
  3. Larkin, Colin. The Guinness encyclopedia of popular music: Primitives-Three's A Crowd. Guinness. p. 3999.
  4. Red Card John Dougan at Allmusic

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