''Character Assassination'' is the eighth solo album by Australian guitarist and songwriter

Ed Kuepper Edmund "Ed" Kuepper (born 20 December 1955) is a German-born Australian guitarist, vocalist and songwriter. He co-founded the punk band The Saints (1973–78), the experimental post-punk group Laughing Clowns (1979–85) and the grunge-like ...

recorded in 1994 and released on the Hot label.The Kuepper Files: Discography
Retrieved 6 July 2010 Early pressings of the album were released with an additional disc ''Death to the Howdy-Doody Brigade'' containing the undubbed master versions of all songs but one from ''Character Assassination'' and one new song.

Reception

The album spent three weeks in the Australian charts in 1994 peaking at number 32. ''Character Assassination'' was nominated for an

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for the Best Independent Release at the

ARIA Music Awards of 1995 The Ninth Australian Recording Industry Association Music Awards (generally known as the ARIA Music Awards or simply The ARIAS) was held on 20 October 1995 at the Sydney Convention & Exhibition Centre. There had been a 18-month gap since the ...

and Kuepper was nominated for Best Male Artist.9th Annual ARIA Awards
Retrieved 8 July 2010. The

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review by Ned Raggett awarded the album 4 stars and states "Kuepper once again demonstrates his talent for instantly appealing, addictive music on ''Character Assassination''. The whole album is for the most part a stripped-down experience, not an unplugged or wholly acoustic effort by any means and often taking a faster pace, but eschewing Kuepper's fiercer guitar work and fuller arrangements for a calmer, less explosive turn".Raggett, N. Allmusic ReviewRetrieved 6 July 2010

Track listing

:''All compositions by Ed Kuepper except as indicated'' # "By the Way" – 4:03 # "Little Fiddle (and the Ghost of Xmas Past)" – 4:23 # "Cockfighter" – 3:43 # "My Best Interests at Heart" – 4:27 # "Take It by the Hand" – 3:46 # "La Di Doh" – 5:07 # "I'm with You" – 3:07 # "Ill Wind" – 6:37 # "So Close to Certainty" – 4:44 # "A Good Soundtrack (Pushin' Fear)" – 3:36 # "

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Merle Kilgore Wyatt Merle Kilgore (August 9, 1934 – February 6, 2005) was an American singer, songwriter, and manager. Born in Chickasha, Oklahoma, he was raised in Shreveport, Louisiana. At the time of his death, he was the personal manager of Hank Wi ...

) – 4:04 # "If I Had a Ticket" – 2:40 Bonus disc: ''Death to the Howdy-Doody Brigade'' # "By the Way" – 4:03 # "Little Fiddle (and the Ghost of Xmas Past)" – 4:23 # "Cockfighter" – 3:43 # "My Best Interests at Heart" – 4:27 # "Take It by the Hand" – 3:46 # "La Di Doh" – 5:07 # "I'm with You" – 3:07 # "Ill Wind" – 6:37 # "So Close to Certainty" – 4:44 # "A Good Soundtrack (Pushin' Fear)" – 3:36 # "Ring of Fire" (Cash, Kilgore) – 4:04 # "Number 10" – 2:40

Personnel

– vocals, acoustic guitar, electric guitar, elastic stringed guitar, bass guitar, bottle *Mark Dawson – drums, percussion * Barry Turnbull – bass *

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– violin * Naomi Star,

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– backing vocals *

Miroslav Bukovsky Miroslav Bukovsky (born Czechoslovakia) is one of Australia's leading jazz trumpeters and composer/arrangers. At the ARIA Music Awards of 1994 Bukovsky won the ARIA Award for Best Jazz Album with the album ''Wanderlust'' with the band Wanderlu ...

, Julian Gough,

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– horn section * Charlie McMahon –

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* Jim Conway – harmonica, jaw harp * Peter Burgess – washboard

Charts

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Character Assassination (Album) Hot Records albums Ed Kuepper albums 1994 albums