Pushing the Salmanilla Envelope explained

Pushing the Salmanilla Envelope
Type:	Album
Artist:	Jimmie's Chicken Shack
Cover:	Pushing the Salmanilla Envelope.jpg
Released:	June 10, 1997
Recorded:	1997
Length:	45:16
Label:	Rocket
Producer:	Steven Haigler
Prev Title:	2 For 1 Special
Prev Year:	1995
Next Title:	Bring Your Own Stereo
Next Year:	1999

Pushing the Salmanilla Envelope is an album by the American band Jimmie's Chicken Shack.^[1] ^[2] It was released in 1997.^[3] The album sold more than 200,000 copies.^[4] The band supported the album by opening for Everclear on a North American tour.^[5]

The title is a word play of "Pushing the envelope", salmonella, and manila envelope.

Critical reception

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."^[6]

Track listing

All tracks by Jimi Haha, Jim McD, Jim Chaney & Che Lemon

Dropping Anchor - 3:40
Outhouse - 3:20
High - 3:48
Spiderweb - 4:05
Blood - 3:44
This Is Not Hell - 5:07
Milk - 5:21
Hole - 2:21
School Bus - 2:55
Another Day - 3:24
Sitting with the Dog - 4:10
When You Die You're Dead - 3:16

Personnel

Jimi Haha - Guitar/Vocals
Jim McD - Guitar
Jim Chaney - Drums and Percussion
Che Lemon - Bass

Notes and References

Web site: Jimmie's Chicken Shack Biography, Songs, & Albums. AllMusic.
Reece . Doug . SHACK ATTACK . Billboard . Jun 28, 1997 . 109 . 26 . 14.
Web site: Jimmie's Chicken Shack. Chris. Parker. June 18, 2008. INDY Week.
Web site: Jimmie's Chicken Shack Bring The Love To "Stereo". https://web.archive.org/web/20220107171529/https://www.mtv.com/news/1430630/jimmies-chicken-shack-bring-the-love-to-stereo/. dead. January 7, 2022. MTV News.
News: Roth . Greg . There's nothing 'Chicken' about Jimmie's 'Shack' . Sunday News . 25 Jan 1998 . H4.
Web site: JIMMIE'S CHICKEN SHACK 'PUSHING THE SALMANILLA ENVELOPE' . The Washington Post . 7 January 2022.