''It's Martini Time'' is the fourth album by

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. 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

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'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). " Rock the Joint" 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 ''

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'' and in the video game ''

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'' 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 #" Rock the Joint" (Crafton/Keene/

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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 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 ...

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 ...

*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 ...

fiddle A fiddle is a Bow (music), bowed String instrument, string musical instrument, most often a violin or a bass. It is a colloquial term for the violin, used by players in all genres, including European classical music, classical music. Althou ...

, vocals *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 ...

, vocals,

percussion A percussion instrument is a musical instrument that is sounded by being struck or scraped by a percussion mallet, beater including attached or enclosed beaters or Rattle (percussion beater), rattles struck, scraped or rubbed by hand or ...

*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 ...

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 ...

, and

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 ...

*Dan Phillips -

steel guitar A steel guitar () 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 conventional guitar i ...

*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 (sometimes abbreviated to "bari sax") 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 saxop ...

*Gary Sweet -

trumpet The trumpet is a brass instrument commonly used in classical and jazz musical ensemble, ensembles. The trumpet group ranges from the piccolo trumpet—with the highest Register (music), register in the brass family—to the bass trumpet, pitche ...

*Erik Swanson -

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*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