Rockerbox

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Rockerbox
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Studio album by
ReleasedDecember 1975
Genre Rock
Length32:57
Label Sire Records (US)
Casino Records (CAN)
Philips Records (HOL)
Phonogram Inc. (GER)
Producer Craig Leon, Richard Gottehrer
Chilliwack chronology
Riding High
(1974)
Rockerbox
(1975)
Dreams, Dreams, Dreams
(1977)
Alternative cover
Rockerbox canada.jpg
Rockerbox Canada Casino Records cover

Rockerbox is the fifth album by the Canadian rock band Chilliwack, released in December 1975. The album was released by Sire Records in the US (Sire 7511), who had previously released the US version of Chilliwack's prior album, Riding High . In Canada, Rockerbox was released with a different cover by Casino Records (successors-in-interest to Chilliwack's previous Canadian label, Goldfish Records) and was Chilliwack's least successful album there. The album was produced by Sire Records' staff producers Craig Leon and Richard Gottehrer, who were better known for rock productions; as a result, it has a reputation as Chilliwack's most straight-ahead "rock" album.

As of 2022, this is the only Chilliwack album not to have been reissued in CD format.

Track listing

  1. "If You Want My Love" (Henderson, Turney) (5:45)
  2. "I Know, You Know" (Henderson, Turney, Froese) (3:00)
  3. "When You Gonna Tell the Truth" (Henderson, Turney, Miller) (3:23)
  4. "Train's a Comin' Back" (Henderson, Turney, Miller) (3:08)
  5. "Marianne" (Henderson, Turney) (6:44)
  6. "Treat Me Fine, Treat Me Good" (Henderson, Turney) (3:40)
  7. "Magnolia" (Henderson, Turney, Miller, Froese) (3:15)
  8. "Last Day of December" (Henderson, Turney) (4:02)

Personnel

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