This Dollar Saved My Life at Whitehorse

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This Dollar Saved My Life at Whitehorse
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Studio album by Lucyfire
Released April 24, 2001
Genre Gothic rock
Length45:05
Label Steamhammer/SPV
Producer Dirk Draeger
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This Dollar Saved My Life at Whitehorse is the first studio album (and only album so far) by Swedish/German band Lucyfire. It was released in 2001 on Steamhammer/SPV.

Lucyfire is a musical project of Johan Edlund, the main member and vocalist of the band Tiamat. The original Tiamat band, as Edlund points out, will go on, and Lucyfire is the place for all the tracks that don't suit Tiamat.

SPV GmbH German music label

SPV GmbH is an independent German record label.

Contents

Track listing

  1. "Baby Come On (She's A Devil Of A Woman)" - 4:08
  2. "Thousand Million Dollars in the Fire" - 3:58
  3. "Mistress of the Night" - 3:53
  4. "Over & Out" - 3:57
  5. "As Pure As S.I.N (Zi Nanna)" - 4:29
  6. "Automatic" - 4:14
  7. "Perfect Crime" - 3:55
  8. "U Can Have All My Love 2nite" - 3:42
  9. "Sharp Dressed Man" (ZZ Top cover) - 4:17
  10. "Annabel Lee" - 4:19
  11. "The Pain Song" - 4:36

All songs written by Johan Edlund, except Sharp Dressed Man, written by Gibbons, Hill, Beard.

Sharp Dressed Man single by ZZ Top

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Personnel

Johan Edlund Swedish singer

Johan Edlund is a Swedish singer, guitarist, and keyboardist and leader of the bands Tiamat and Lucyfire. He has also re-mixed songs for Rammstein and London After Midnight. He was also a guest singer in the Dutch progressive metal project, Ayreon.

Keys & Rocket Science by Dirk Draeger & Mark Engemann.

Title

The album shares its title with a 1973 oil painting by Carl Barks which depicts Scrooge McDuck in his money bin telling a story to Huey, Dewey, Louie, and Donald Duck. The reference is to the Yukon town of Whitehorse and Scrooge's many adventures searching for gold in the region, as told in the story Back to the Klondike. [2]

Carl Barks American cartoonist, author, and painter

Carl Barks was an American cartoonist, author, and painter. He is best known for his comics about Donald Duck and as the creator of Scrooge McDuck. He worked anonymously until late in his career; fans dubbed him The Duck Man and The Good Duck Artist. In 1987, Barks was one of the three inaugural inductees of the Will Eisner Comic Book Hall of Fame.

Scrooge McDuck Disney character, uncle of Donald Duck

Scrooge McDuck is a fictional character created in 1947 by Carl Barks as a work-for-hire for The Walt Disney Company. Scrooge is an elderly Scottish anthropomorphic Pekin duck with a yellow-orange bill, legs, and feet. He typically wears a red or blue frock coat, top hat, pince-nez glasses, and spats. He is portrayed in animations as speaking with a Scottish accent.

Huey, Dewey, and Louie trio of fictional, anthropomorphic ducks

Huey, Dewey, and Louie Duck are triplet cartoon characters created in 1937 by writer Ted Osborne and cartoonist Al Taliaferro, and are owned by The Walt Disney Company. Huey, Dewey, and Louie are the nephews of Donald Duck and the grandnephews of Scrooge McDuck. Like their uncles, the boys are anthropomorphic white ducks with yellow-orange bills and feet. They typically wear shirts and colorful baseball caps, which are sometimes used to differentiate each character. Huey, Dewey and Louie have made several animated appearances in both films and television, but comics remain their primary medium. The trio are collectively the 11th most published comic book characters in the world, and outside of the superhero genre, second only to Donald.

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