''It's Martini Time'' is the fourth 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 Dallas, Texas-based psychobilly trio. Heath is a singer, songwriter and guitarist. A ''Prick'' magazine reviewer called Heat ...

. It was released by

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in July 1996. ''It's Martini Time'' is the first Reverend Horton Heat album to feature Scott Churilla on drums, following Taz Bentley's departure from the band in 1994. It is also the first Reverend Horton Heat album to chart on the ''Billboard'' 200, reaching number 165 (the second highest position of a Reverend Horton Heat album on that chart). "

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" is the 1952

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version with new lyrics and a different arrangement than the 1949 Jimmy Preston recording. The song "Big Red Rocket of Love" appears in the film '' Modern Vampires'' and in the video game '' MotorStorm'' on

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Track listing

All songs written by Jim Heath except as noted. #"Big Red Rocket of Love" – 3:04 #"Slow" – 4:23 #"It's Martini Time" – 3:14 #"Generation Why" – 2:46 #"Slingshot" (Heath/Wallace/Churilla) – 3:07 #"Time to Pray" – 2:40 #"Crooked Cigarette" – 2:54 #"

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) – 2:04 #"Cowboy Love" – 2:41 #"Now, Right Now" – 2:39 #"Spell On Me" – 3:18 #"Or Is It Just Me" – 5:30 #"Forbidden Jungle" – 2:18 #"That's Showbiz" – 4:35

Personnel

*Jim "Reverend Horton" Heath -

vocals Singing is the act of creating musical sounds with the voice. A person who sings is called a singer, artist or vocalist (in jazz and/or popular music). Singers perform music (arias, recitatives, songs, etc.) that can be sung with or witho ...

guitar The guitar is a fretted musical instrument that typically has six strings. It is usually held flat against the player's body and played by strumming or plucking the strings with the dominant hand, while simultaneously pressing selected string ...

*Jimbo Wallace -

upright bass The double bass (), also known simply as the bass () (or #Terminology, by other names), is the largest and lowest-pitched Bow (music), bowed (or plucked) string instrument in the modern orchestra, symphony orchestra (excluding unorthodox addit ...

, fiddle, vocals *Scott Churilla -

drums A drum kit (also called a drum set, trap set, or simply drums) is a collection of drums, cymbals, and other auxiliary percussion instruments set up to be played by one person. The player (drummer) typically holds a pair of matching drumsticks ...

, vocals,

percussion A percussion instrument is a musical instrument that is sounded by being struck or scraped by a beater including attached or enclosed beaters or rattles struck, scraped or rubbed by hand or struck against another similar instrument. Exc ...

*Tim Alexander -

piano The piano is a stringed keyboard instrument in which the strings are struck by wooden hammers that are coated with a softer material (modern hammers are covered with dense wool felt; some early pianos used leather). It is played using a musica ...

, organ, and accordion *Dan Phillips -

steel guitar A steel guitar ( haw, kīkākila) is any guitar played while moving a steel bar or similar hard object against plucked strings. The bar itself is called a "steel" and is the source of the name "steel guitar". The instrument differs from a conve ...

*Billy Pitman - guitar *Jim Lehnert -

tenor sax The tenor saxophone is a medium-sized member of the saxophone family, a group of instruments invented by Adolphe Sax in the 1840s. The tenor and the alto are the two most commonly used saxophones. The tenor is pitched in the key of B (while ...

baritone sax The baritone saxophone is a member of the saxophone family of instruments, larger (and lower-pitched) than the tenor saxophone, but smaller (and higher-pitched) than the bass. It is the lowest-pitched saxophone in common use - the bass, contrab ...

*Gary Sweet -

trumpet The trumpet is a brass instrument commonly used in classical and jazz ensembles. The trumpet group ranges from the piccolo trumpet—with the highest register in the brass family—to the bass trumpet, pitched one octave below the standar ...

*Erik Swanson -

trombone The trombone (german: Posaune, Italian, French: ''trombone'') is a musical instrument in the brass family. As with all brass instruments, sound is produced when the player's vibrating lips cause the air column inside the instrument to vibrat ...

*Thom Panunzio - producer, engineer, mixing (on "Crooked Cigarette", "Rock The Joint", "Cowboy Love", "Or Is It Just Me", and "That's Showbiz") *Keith Rust - assistant engineer, mixing (on "It's Martini Time", "Now, Right Now", "Spell On Me", and "Forbidden Jungle") *Terry Slemmons - assistant engineer *David Nottingham - assistant mixer *Chris Shaw - mixing (on "Big Red Rocket of Love", "Slow", "Generation Why", "Slingshot", and "Time To Pray") *Robert Vosgien - mastering *Tony Ferguson - A&R *Dennis Williams - crew *David Adriance - crew *Blair Campbell - crew *Allan Nassau - crew *Karma Cheema - crew *Doc Williamson - crew *Scott Weiss - management *Unleashed - art direction *Jennifer Broussard - photography *Marina Chavez - photography *Richard Lee Smith, Jr. - additional illustration

Charts

References

{{Authority control 1996 albums The Reverend Horton Heat albums Albums produced by Thom Panunzio Interscope Records albums