''Unknown Territory'' is a studio album by the American surf guitarist
Dick Dale
Richard Anthony Monsour (May 4, 1937 – March 16, 2019), known professionally as Dick Dale, was an American Rock music, rock guitarist. He was a pioneer of surf music, drawing on Middle Eastern music scale (music), scales and experimenting wit ...
, released in 1994.
Dale supported the album with a North American tour. The cover of "
Ring of Fire
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" was a tribute to Dale's childhood love of country music.
Critical reception
The ''
Chicago Tribune
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'' wrote that "the extravagance of
ale'sembroiderings suggesting jazz even as the savagery of his attack is rock incarnate."
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'' opined that "the album's prime stuff is defined less by speed than by its sexy swagger ... 'F Groove' offers slow, heavy rock that is truly low-down and mean."[ '']The News Tribune
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'' determined that "Hava Nagila
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" "sounds like the Ramones picked up a B'nai Brith songbook."
Track listing
All tracks composed by Dick Dale, except where indicated.
#"Scalped" – 4:05
#"Mexico
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" (Boudleaux Bryant
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) – 3:05
#"F Groove" – 4:26
#"Terra Dicktyl" – 3:11
#"Take It or Leave It" – 4:27
#" Ghost Riders in the Sky" ( Stan Jones) – 3:16
#"Fish Taco" – 2:39
#" California Sun" (Henry Glover
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) – 3:16
#"Maria Elena" – 4:19
#"Hava Nagila
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" (traditional) – 4:00
#"The Beast" – 3:09
#"Unknown Territory" – 7:55
#"Ring of Fire
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" (Merle Kilgore
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, June Carter
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) – 3:31
Personnel
Musicians
* Dick Dale
Richard Anthony Monsour (May 4, 1937 – March 16, 2019), known professionally as Dick Dale, was an American Rock music, rock guitarist. He was a pioneer of surf music, drawing on Middle Eastern music scale (music), scales and experimenting wit ...
– guitar, vocals
* Ron Eglit – bass guitar, 6 string bass
* Scott Mathews – drums, percussion
* Prairie Prince
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– drums, percussion
* Tribe Vibe (Scott Mathews, Dick Dale, Prairie Prince, Morgan Raimond, Joe Marquez) – chants
* Huey Lewis
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Lewis sang lead and played harmonica for his band, Huey Lewis and the News, until being forced into retirement due ...
– harmonica on "Ghost Riders in the Sky" and "F Groove"
Technical personnelSan Francisco
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)
References
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1994 albums
Dick Dale albums
HighTone Records albums