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Martinis and Bikinis is the seventh (studio) album from American

United States

The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

Singer-songwriter

Singer-songwriters are musicians who write, compose and sing their own musical material including lyrics and melodies. As opposed to contemporary popular music singers who write their own songs, the term singer-songwriter describes a distinct form of artistry, closely associated with the...

Sam Phillips

Sam Phillips (singer)

Leslie Ann Phillips, aka Sam Phillips is an American singer and a songwriter.-Biography:Phillips was born in Glendale, California. She began her musical career as a vocalist in the early 1980s, singing background parts for Christian artists Mark Heard, Randy Stonehill and others...

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The photographs included in this album's artwork reportedly led to Phillips' role as a mute terrorist in the film, Die Hard with a Vengeance.

Track listing

All songs by Sam Phillips, except "Same Rain" and "Same Changes" by Sam Phillips and T-Bone Burnett

T-Bone Burnett

Joseph Henry Burnett , widely known as T-Bone Burnett, is an American musician, songwriter, and soundtrack and record producer.He was a guitarist in Bob Dylan's band on the Rolling Thunder Revue...

. "Gimme Some Truth" by John Lennon

John Lennon

John Winston Lennon, MBE was an English musician and singer-songwriter who rose to worldwide fame as one of the founding members of The Beatles, one of the most commercially successful and critically acclaimed acts in the history of popular music...

"Love and Kisses" - :56
"Signposts" – 2:19
"Same Rain" – 4:11
"Baby, I Can't Please You" – 3:30
"Circle Of Fire" – 3:12
"Strawberry Road" – 4:05
"When I Fall" – 5:07
"Same Changes"– 4:44
"Black Sky" – 4:03
"Fighting With Fire" – 3:00
"I Need Love" – 3:39
"Wheel Of The Broken Voice" – 4:00
"Gimme Some Truth
Gimme Some Truth
"Gimme Some Truth" is a protest song written and performed by John Lennon from his 1971 album Imagine.Like several songs on the album, such as the title track "Imagine", "Gimme Some Truth" has blatant political references emerging from the time it was written, during the latter years of the Vietnam...

" – 3:27

Personnel

Sam Phillips on Vocals
T Bone Burnett
Mickey Curry
Mickey Curry
Michael Timothy Curry is an American drummer. He is best known for his long-term collaboration with the singer-songwriter Bryan Adams, although he has also worked with Hall & Oates, Cher, Tina Turner, Alice Cooper, David Bowie, Elvis Costello, Sam Phillips, Tom Waits, The Cult, Steve Jones and...
David Mansfield
David Mansfield
David Mansfield is an American violinist, mandolin player, guitarist, pedal steel guitar player, and composer....
Colin Moulding
Colin Moulding
Colin Ivor Moulding is a bassist, songwriter and vocalist. He is a founding member of the band XTC. Though less prolific than bandmate Andy Partridge, Moulding wrote many of the group's most popular songs, including their first three UK hit singles: "Life Begins At The Hop", "Making Plans For...
Jerry Scheff
Jerry Scheff
Jerry Obern Scheff is an American bassist, perhaps best known for his work with Elvis Presley in the early 1970s as a member of his TCB Band and his work on The Doors' final recordings....

Additional musicians

Michael Blair
Peter Buck
Peter Buck
Peter Lawrence Buck , is an American rock guitarist who is best known for playing in and co-founding alternative rock band R.E.M....
Marvin Etzioni
Dan Heffington
Stephen Hodges
Stephen Hodges (musician)
Stephen Hodges is an American percussionist and composer. He is best known for his work with Tom Waits, Mike Watt, T Bone Burnett, and film director David Lynch.- Discography :*Tom Waits - Swordfishtrombones...
Van Dyke Parks
Van Dyke Parks
Van Dyke Parks is an American composer, arranger, producer, musician, singer, author and actor. Parks is perhaps best known for his contributions as a lyricist on the Beach Boys album Smile....
Marc Ribot
Marc Ribot
Marc Ribot born May 21, 1954) is an American guitarist and composer.His own work has touched on many styles, including no wave, free jazz, and Cuban music. Ribot is also known for collaborating with other musicians, most notably Tom Waits, Elvis Costello, and composer John Zorn.-Biography:Ribot was...
Larry Taylor
Larry Taylor
Larry Taylor is an American bass guitarist, best known for his work as a member of Canned Heat from 1967. Before joining Canned Heat he had been a session bassist for The Monkees and Jerry Lee Lewis...
Benmont Tench
Benmont Tench
Benjamin Montmorency Tench, III is an American keyboardist best known as a founding member of Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers.-Early years:...
Strings on "Baby I Can't Please You" arranged by Van Dyke Parks.
The Sid Page Strings are: Sid Page
Sid Page
Sid Page is an American based violin player who has been playing since the late 1960s. He became a member of Dan Hicks & The Hotlicks replacing violinist David LaFlamme...

, Joel Derouin, Robert Becker, and Larry Corbett.

Production notes

Produced by T Bone Burnett, except "Baby, I Can't Please You" produced by TBone Burnett and Colin Moulding.
Recorded by Joe Schiff.
Additional Engineering by Neal Avron.
Mixed by Tchad Blake
Tchad Blake
Tchad Blake is an American record producer, audio engineer, mixer and musician.He has worked with numerous artists and musicians, including State Radio, Apartment 26, Elvis Costello, Peter Gabriel, Pearl Jam, Tom Waits, Richard Thompson, Brazilian Girls, Sheryl Crow, November 2nd, Travis, Marike...

, assisted by John Paterno.
Assistant engineers: Jim Champagne, David Eike, David Brock, Doug Diamond, Noel Hazen, Tom Nellen, Howard Willing, and Bobby Salcedo.
Recorded at Groove Masters, Kiva West, Ocean Way Recorders, Record One, Sunset Sound, Sunset Sound Factory.
Mixed at Sound Factory.

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