Smokin' Taters! Explained

Smokin' Taters!
Type:	Studio Album
Artist:	Nine Pound Hammer
Cover:	Smokin' Taters!.jpg
Released:	1992
Recorded:	11–13 July 1991
Studio:	Coyote Studios^[1]
Genre:	Cowpunk
Label:	Crypt Records^[2]
Producer:	Michael Mariconda
Prev Title:	The Mud, The Blood, and The Beers
Prev Year:	1988
Next Title:	Hayseed Timebomb
Next Year:	1994

Smokin' Taters! is an album by the Kentucky-based cowpunk band Nine Pound Hammer.^[3] ^[4] It was released in 1992.^[5] The band supported the album with a European tour.^[6]

Some demos were recorded in Glasgow in 1990.^[7] "Long Gone Daddy" is a cover of the Hank Williams song.^[8]

Critical reception

Trouser Press wrote that the album "smokes out of the speakers with redoubled purpose and fluid, road-tested rockabilly punk."^[5]

Track listing

Long Gone Daddy
Cadillac Inn
Everything You Know Is Wrong
Feelin' Kinda Froggy
Don't Get No
Folsom Prison Blues
Turned Traitor For A Piece Of Tail
I'm On Fire
Wrong Side Of The Road
Head Bangin' Stock Boy
Surfabilly
Weasel, The

Personnel

Blaine Cartwright - Guitar
Rob Hulsman - Drums
Matt Bartholomy - Bass
Scott Luallen - Vocals
Bill & Michelle - Backing Vocals
Michael Mariconda - Producer
Albert Caiati - Engineer

External links

Discogs

Notes and References

Web site: Nine Pound Hammer: Has it BEEN 25 years? Already?. July 14, 2010. Ace Weekly. August 19, 2020. October 27, 2020. https://web.archive.org/web/20201027145635/https://www.aceweekly.com/2010/07/nine-pound-hammer-has-it-been-25-years-already/. live.
Web site: NINE POUND HAMMER "SMOKIN' TATERS" CD. 2020-08-19. 2019-10-17. https://web.archive.org/web/20191017132834/https://www.cryptrecords.com/nine-pound-hammer-smokin-taters-cd.html. live.
Web site: Nine Pound Hammer | Biography & History. AllMusic. 2020-08-19. 2021-11-30. https://web.archive.org/web/20211130040542/https://www.allmusic.com/artist/nine-pound-hammer-mn0000351908/biography. live.
Smokin' Taters by Nine Pound Hammer . Melody Maker . Jan 11, 1992 . 68 . 2 . 30.
Web site: Nine Pound Hammer . Trouser Press . 19 August 2020 . 31 October 2020 . https://web.archive.org/web/20201031190036/https://trouserpress.com/reviews/nine-pound-hammer/ . live .
News: McQueen . Tracy L. . Owensboro 'cow punks' go overseas to hammer on door to success . Messenger-Inquirer . November 15, 1991 . 1D.
News: Tunis . Walter . A Hammer and a Mouse . Lexington Herald-Leader . May 6, 2005 . Weekender . 4.
Web site: The Southern Rock Revival: The Old South in a New World. Jason T.. Eastman. March 16, 2017. Rowman & Littlefield. Google Books. October 20, 2020. August 17, 2023. https://web.archive.org/web/20230817014548/https://books.google.com/books?id=7GY2DgAAQBAJ&q=Smokin%27+Taters!+nine+pound+hammer&pg=PA85. live.