''Spend a Night in the Box'' is the sixth album by

The Reverend Horton Heat The Reverend Horton Heat is the stage name of American musician James C. Heath (born 1959) as well as the name of his psychobilly trio from Dallas. Heath is a singer, songwriter, and guitarist. A reviewer for the magazine Prick (magazine), ''Pr ...

. It was released by

Time Bomb Recordings Time Bomb Recordings was a Laguna Beach, California-based independent record label, founded in 1995 by artist manager Jim Guerinot in a joint-venture agreement with Arista Records. In the following five years, the artist roster grew to encompass ...

in 2000.

Production

The album, produced by

Paul Leary Paul Leary Walthall (born May 7, 1957), known as Paul Leary, is an American musician and music producer from Austin, Texas, best known as the lead guitarist and occasional lead vocalist for the rock band Butthole Surfers Butthole Surfers ar ...

, was recorded at Pedernales Studios, in Texas. Jim "Reverend Horton" Heath played a 1954 Gibson ES-175 on the album.

Critical reception

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'' called the album "good, basic, well-produced country and swing-influenced rockabilly." ''

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'' panned the "Gap-ready numbers like 'Sleeper Coach Driver' and 'Hand It to Me'," writing that "one Big Bad Voodoo Daddy is more than enough." ''

Trouser Press ''Trouser Press'' was a rock and roll magazine started in New York in 1974 as a mimeographed fanzine by editor/publisher Ira Robbins, fellow fan of the Who, Dave Schulps, and Karen Rose under the name "Trans-Oceanic Trouser Press" (a reference ...

'' wrote that "The Rev relocated his songwriting mojo for an album full of tasty rockabilly, swinging grooves and good old-fashioned stomp." ''

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'' deemed it "a skillfully choreographed saloon rumble of an album."

Track listing

All songs written by Jim Heath except as noted. # "Spend a Night in the Box" – 3:07 # "Big D Boogie Woogie" – 2:55 # "Sleeper Coach Driver" – 3:24 # "The Girl in Blue" – 3:52 # "Sue Jack Daniels" – 3:31 # "Hand It to Me" – 3:23 # "I'll Make Love" – 2:20 # "It Hurts Your Daddy Bad" – 4:04 # "The Bedroom Again" – 3:22 # "King" – 2:41 # "Whole Lotta Baby" – 3:42 # "The Millionaire" (Heath/Churilla) – 3:56 # "Unlucky in Love" – 4:33 # "The Party in Your Head" – 3:55

Personnel

*Jim "Reverend Horton" Heath -

guitar The guitar is a stringed musical instrument that is usually fretted (with Fretless guitar, some exceptions) and typically has six or Twelve-string guitar, twelve strings. It is usually held flat against the player's body and played by strumming ...

vocals Singing is the art of creating music with the voice. It is the oldest form of musical expression, and the human voice can be considered the first musical instrument. The definition of singing varies across sources. Some sources define sing ...

*Jimbo Wallace -

upright bass The double bass (), also known as the upright bass, the acoustic bass, the bull fiddle, or simply the bass, is the largest and lowest-pitched string instrument, chordophone in the modern orchestra, symphony orchestra (excluding rare additions ...

*Scott Churilla -

drums The drum is a member of the percussion instrument, percussion group of musical instruments. In the Hornbostel–Sachs classification system, it is a membranophones, membranophone. Drums consist of at least one Acoustic membrane, membrane, c ...

*Tim Alexander -

piano A piano is a keyboard instrument that produces sound when its keys are depressed, activating an Action (music), action mechanism where hammers strike String (music), strings. Modern pianos have a row of 88 black and white keys, tuned to a c ...

(on "Sleeper Coach Driver"), piano and

organ Organ and organs may refer to: Biology * Organ (biology), a group of tissues organized to serve a common function * Organ system, a collection of organs that function together to carry out specific functions within the body. Musical instruments ...

(on "Hand It to Me"),

accordion Accordions (from 19th-century German language, German ', from '—"musical chord, concord of sounds") are a family of box-shaped musical instruments of the bellows-driven free reed aerophone type (producing sound as air flows past a Reed (mou ...

and

bajo quinto The Bajo quinto (Spanish: "fifth bass") is a Mexican string instrument from the guitar family with 10 strings in five double courses. It is played in a similar manner to the guitar, with the left hand changing the pitch with the frets on a finge ...

("Unlucky in Love") *Paul Leary - producer, mixer *Stuart Sullivan - mixer, engineer *Scott J. Weiss - management *Jolie Clemens - artwork *Jennifer Broussard -

photography Photography is the visual arts, art, application, and practice of creating images by recording light, either electronically by means of an image sensor, or chemically by means of a light-sensitive material such as photographic film. It is empl ...

Charts

References

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