13 (Brian Setzer Album)
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13 is the thirteenth solo album from American musician Brian Setzer. It was released in 2006 on
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, and contained the Japanese hit single "Back Streets Of Tokyo". Setzer had originally intended for the album to have one direction, or sound, but after thinking about how
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' albums were so diverse, he decided to include many different styles on the album. Brian Setzer and
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, who appears on "Really Rockabilly", were both in the
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. "We Are The Marauders" was written by Brian Setzer for the
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band The Marauders, who opened for
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in 2006. The song appears on their self-titled album.


Track listing


Limited Edition

Special edition 12" LPs of the album were available from May 2007. These were available in three colours (red, white and blue) in a red, embossed cover.


Chart positions

Album Single


Single

*"Back Streets of Tokyo" (Japan) – Credited as 'Brian Setzer Vs
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' (August 23, 2006)


Personnel

*
Brian Setzer Brian Robert Setzer (born April 10, 1959) is an American guitarist, singer, and songwriter. He found widespread success in the early 1980s with the 1950s-style rockabilly group Stray Cats, and returned to the music scene in the early 1990s with ...
 – lead vocals, electric guitar, electric bass,
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,
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* Ronnie Crutcher –
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* Bernie Dresel – drums * Stefan Kac –
tuba The tuba (; ) is the largest and lowest-pitched musical instrument in the brass instrument, brass family. As with all brass instruments, the sound is produced by lip vibrationa buzzinto a mouthpiece (brass), mouthpiece. It first appeared in th ...
* Jon Duncan –
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* Arlan Shierbaum – B-3 *
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 – piano *
Slim Jim Phantom James McDonnell, known by the stage name Slim Jim Phantom, is an American musician, best known as the drummer for the band Stray Cats. Alongside bandmates Brian Setzer and Lee Rocker, he is considered a pioneer of the neo-rockabilly movemen ...
 – drums on "Really Rockabilly" *
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 – guitar and vocals on "Back Streets Of Tokyo", background vocals * Julie Reiten – vocals on "Don't Say You Love Me", background vocals * Adam Ayan – Mastering * Jeff Peters and Brent Sigmeth – Engineering * Zack (the knife) Hollander and Jon Diederich – Asst. Engineering *
Tomoyasu Hotei , also known simply as Hotei ( ), is a Japanese musician, singer-songwriter, composer, record producer and actor. With a career spanning more than 40 years, Hotei claims record sales of over 40 million copies and has collaborated with artists fr ...
 – Production on "Back Streets of Tokyo"


References

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