Roulette Girl

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Roulette Girl
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Studio album by Mary Prankster
Released November 23, 1999
Genre Rock
Length25:54
Label Fowl Records
Producer Rennie Grant, Mary Prankster, Steve Wright
Mary Prankster chronology
Blue Skies Over Dundalk
(1998) Blue Skies Over Dundalk1998
Roulette Girl
(1999)
Blue Skies Forever
(2002) Blue Skies Forever2002
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Roulette Girl is the second album by Mary Prankster.

Album collection of recorded music, words, sounds

An album is a collection of audio recordings issued as a collection on compact disc (CD), vinyl, audio tape, or another medium. Albums of recorded music were developed in the early 20th century as individual 78-rpm records collected in a bound book resembling a photograph album; this format evolved after 1948 into single vinyl LP records played at ​33 13 rpm. Vinyl LPs are still issued, though album sales in the 21st-century have mostly focused on CD and MP3 formats. The audio cassette was a format used alongside vinyl from the 1970s into the first decade of the 2000s.

Mary Prankster was the moniker for an American singer-songwriter, primarily associated with Baltimore, who played a blend of alternative/indie music with frank lyrics. The name is a reference to Ken Kesey's Merry Pranksters. After over 1,000 live performances the Mary Prankster character was retired over "Pranksgiving Weekend" ; the woman behind Mary continues to work on other creative projects.

Track listing

All songs by Mary Prankster

  1. "Roulette Girl" – 3:36
  2. "The Bottle's Talking Now" – 1:57
  3. "The World Is Full of Bastards" – 1:54
  4. "Swan Dive" – 2:47
  5. "Rational Bohemian" – 2:39
  6. "Mata Hari" – 1:59
  7. "Punk Rock Heaven" – 1:37
  8. "Tempest" – 2:08
  9. "Takes His Place" – 4:21
  10. "New Tricks" – 2:52

Personnel

Singing act of producing musical sounds with the voice

Singing is the act of producing musical sounds with the voice and augments regular speech by the use of sustained tonality, rhythm, and a variety of vocal techniques. A person who sings is called a singer or vocalist. Singers perform music that can be sung with or without accompaniment by musical instruments. Singing is often done in an ensemble of musicians, such as a choir of singers or a band of instrumentalists. Singers may perform as soloists or accompanied by anything from a single instrument up to a symphony orchestra or big band. Different singing styles include art music such as opera and Chinese opera, Indian music and religious music styles such as gospel, traditional music styles, world music, jazz, blues, gazal and popular music styles such as pop, rock, electronic dance music and filmi.

Guitar fretted string instrument

The guitar is a fretted musical instrument that usually has six strings. It is typically played with both hands by strumming or plucking the strings with either a guitar pick or the finger(s)/fingernails of one hand, while simultaneously fretting with the fingers of the other hand. The sound of the vibrating strings is projected either acoustically, by means of the hollow chamber of the guitar, or through an electrical amplifier and a speaker.

Bass guitar Electric bass instrument

The bass guitar is a stringed instrument similar in appearance and construction to an electric guitar, except with a longer neck and scale length, and four to six strings or courses.

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