| Tornado | |
| Type: | Album |
| Artist: | The Rainmakers |
| Cover: | File:Rainmakers_Tornado.jpg |
| Released: | 1987 |
| Recorded: | May–July 1987 at Ardent Studios, Memphis, Tennessee |
| Genre: | Rock, heartland rock[1] |
| Length: | 41:07 |
| Label: | Mercury |
| Producer: | Terry Manning |
| Prev Title: | The Rainmakers |
| Prev Year: | 1986 |
| Next Title: | The Good News and the Bad News |
| Next Year: | 1989 |
Tornado is the second studio album by the American band the Rainmakers, released in 1987.[2] [3] It reached No. 116 on the Billboard 200.[4] The band supported the album with a North American tour.[5] "The Lakeview Man" is about a Vietnam veteran.[6]
A remastered version of the album was released in 2012, with eight additional bonus tracks.
The Chicago Tribune wrote that the album "offers more thought-provoking rock and roll that recalls the lyrics of T-Bone Burnett and the sound of Creedence Clearwater Revival and the early Rolling Stones."[7] The Los Angeles Times noted that "Bob Walkenhorst's characters are generally the same kind of small-town folk as in [John Cougar] Mellencamp's world, but aren't as stereotyped." USA Today determined that "songs like 'Snakedance' and 'Tornado of Love' sound terrific—if a bit familiar—but the lyrics are too transparent."[8]
All tracks written by Bob Walkenhorst except where noted.
Bonus tracks on 2012 Remastered CD