Live & Deadly: Memphis-Chicago is a live album recorded by the Compulsive Gamblers

Compulsive Gamblers

Compulsive Gamblers were a garage-rock group formed in Memphis, Tennessee, in 1990 by Greg Cartwright and Jack Yarber, both future members of the Oblivians.-First incarnation:...

. It is the fourth and final album issued by the band, released on April 15, 2003 by the independent record label Sympathy for the Record Industry

Sympathy for the Record Industry

Sympathy for the Record Industry is a mainly independent garage rock and punk label formed in 1988 by record industry anti-mogul Long Gone John...

. The album contains 16 tracks recorded during two May 2002 performances, one in Memphis, Tennessee

Memphis, Tennessee

Memphis is a city in the southwestern corner of the U.S. state of Tennessee, and the county seat of Shelby County. The city is located on the 4th Chickasaw Bluff, south of the confluence of the Wolf and Mississippi rivers....

, and the other in Chicago, Illinois. Live & Deadly was released just prior to the second, and so far final, time the Compulsive Gamblers disbanded. [] The album contains cover songs by the Bar-Kays

Bar-Kays

The Bar-Kays are a popular soul, R&B, and funk group who began performing in 1966 and continue to perform today, although with only one original member. The group had dozens of charting singles from the 1960s to the 1980s, including "Soul Finger" The Bar-Kays are a popular soul, R&B, and funk group...

, Tom Waits

Tom Waits

Thomas Alan "Tom" Waits is an American singer-songwriter, composer, and actor. Waits has a distinctive voice, described by critic Daniel Durchholz as sounding "like it was soaked in a vat of bourbon, left hanging in the smokehouse for a few months, and then taken outside and run over with a car."...

, and Nolan Strong & The Diablos

Nolan Strong & The Diablos

Nolan Strong & The Diablos were a Detroit-based R&B and doo-wop vocal group best known for its hit songs "The Wind" and "Mind Over Matter." The group was one of the most popular, pre-Motown, R&B acts in Detroit during the mid 1950s, through the early 1960s....

. The song Sour and Vicious Man was in turn covered by The Reatards on their third album, Not Fucked Enough.

Track listing

1. Bad Taste (Bar-Kays
   Bar-Kays
   The Bar-Kays are a popular soul, R&B, and funk group who began performing in 1966 and continue to perform today, although with only one original member. The group had dozens of charting singles from the 1960s to the 1980s, including "Soul Finger" The Bar-Kays are a popular soul, R&B, and funk group...
   
   , Gamblers) - 3:31
2. Your Happiness (Brown
   Nolan Strong & The Diablos
   Nolan Strong & The Diablos were a Detroit-based R&B and doo-wop vocal group best known for its hit songs "The Wind" and "Mind Over Matter." The group was one of the most popular, pre-Motown, R&B acts in Detroit during the mid 1950s, through the early 1960s....
   
   ) - 2:23
3. Way Down in the Hole (Waits
   Tom Waits
   Thomas Alan "Tom" Waits is an American singer-songwriter, composer, and actor. Waits has a distinctive voice, described by critic Daniel Durchholz as sounding "like it was soaked in a vat of bourbon, left hanging in the smokehouse for a few months, and then taken outside and run over with a car."...
   
   ) - 3:05
4. I'm That Guy (Cartwright) - 3:06
5. Don't Come Looking for Me Now (Cartwright) - 4:06
6. New Romance (Cartwright) - 3:05
7. Mind in the Gutter (Yarber) - 5:14
8. Sour and Vicious Man (Cartwright) - 3:10
9. Stop and Think It Over (Cartwright) - 3:23
10. Two Wrongs Don't Make a Right (Cartwright) - 3:16
11. Wait a Bit Joe (Yarber) - 2:48
12. I Don't Want to Laugh at You (Cartwright) - 3:22
13. Name a Drink After You (Yarber) - 3:48
14. Two Thieves (Cartwright) - 5:50
15. Pepper Spray Boogie (Yarber) - 2:22
16. Quit This Town (Cartwright, Yarber) - 7:29 []

Credits

• Greg Cartwright
  Greg Cartwright
  Greg Cartwright, also known by his stage name Greg Oblivian, is an American singer, songwriter, and guitarist from Memphis, Tennessee. He currently fronts Reigning Sound and lives in Asheville, North Carolina...
  
   - Guitar, Vocals
• Jack Yarber
  Jack Yarber
  Jack Yarber, also known by his stage name, Jack Oblivian, is an American singer, songwriter, and guitarist based in Memphis, Tennessee. He was a founding member of the garage-bands The Compulsive Gamblers, and The Oblivans and currently fronts Jack O & the Tennessee Tearjerkers.Yarber has also been...
  
  - Guitar, Vocals
• Alex Greene - Organ, Piano
• Jeremy Scott - Bass, Background Vocals
• Greg Roberson - Drums
• The Compulsive Gamblers - Producer http://www.artistdirect.com/nad/store/artist/album/0,,2525875,00.html