Highlights and Lowlives
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Highlights And Lowlives is the eighth studio album
by American blues-rock
band Blue Cheer
released in 1990, and produced by Jack Endino
, a prominent grunge
producer.
Studio album
A studio album is an album made up of tracks recorded in the controlled environment of a recording studio. A studio album contains newly written and recorded or previously unreleased or remixed material, distinguishing itself from a compilation or reissue album of previously recorded material, or...
by American blues-rock
Blues-rock
Blues rock is a hybrid musical genre combining bluesy improvisations over the 12-bar blues and extended boogie jams with rock and roll styles. The core of the blues rock sound is created by the electric guitar, piano, bass guitar and drum kit, with the electric guitar usually amplified through a...
band Blue Cheer
Blue Cheer
Blue Cheer was an American psychedelic blues-rock band that initially performed and recorded in the late 1960s and early 1970s and was sporadically active until 2009...
released in 1990, and produced by Jack Endino
Jack Endino
Jack Endino is a producer and musician based in Seattle. Long associated with Seattle label Sub Pop and the grunge movement, Endino worked on seminal albums from bands such as Mudhoney, Soundgarden, and Nirvana...
, a prominent grunge
Grunge
Grunge is a subgenre of alternative rock that emerged during the mid-1980s in the American state of Washington, particularly in the Seattle area. Inspired by hardcore punk, heavy metal, and indie rock, grunge is generally characterized by heavily distorted electric guitars, contrasting song...
producer.
Track listing
- «Urban Soldiers» (Dickie Peterson) — 4:09
- «Hunter Of Love» (MacDonald, Peterson) — 5:32
- «Girl From London» (MacDonald, Peterson) — 5:40
- «Blue Steel Dues» (MacDonald, Peterson) — 6:19
- «Big Trouble In Paradise» (Peterson, Rainer) — 4:11
- «Flight Of The Enola Gay» (MacDonald, Peterson) — 3:49
- «(I'm Your) Hoochie Coochie Man» (Willie Dixon) — 5:56
- «Down And Dirty» (MacDonald, Peterson) — 4:35
Personnel
- Dickie Peterson — bass, lead vocals
- Duck MacDonaldDuck MacDonaldAndrew MacDonald, a.k.a Duck MacDonald, is an American heavy metal/hard rock guitarist, who has played in several bands, the most well-known of which being Blue Cheer....
— lead guitars, backing vocals - Paul WhaleyPaul WhaleyPaul Whaley is an American drummer best known as the drummer for rock band Blue Cheer. He and Dickie Peterson were the only two founding members still in the band when it broke up in late 2009, following Peterson's death at age 63....
— drums