Shotgun Angel is the title of a 1977 album released by Daniel Amos

Daniel Amos

Daniel Amos is a rock band formed in 1974 by Terry Scott Taylor on guitars and vocals, Marty Dieckmeyer on bass guitar, Steve Baxter on guitars and Jerry Chamberlain on lead guitars. Current members include bassist Tim Chandler, guitarist Greg Flesch and drummer Ed McTaggart...

. The album itself is named after a song written by Bill Sprouse Jr.

Bill Sprouse Jr.

Bill Sprouse Jr. was a Christian evangelist, singer and songwriter, and the musical force behind two groups in the early 1970s. Bill recorded several songs for Maranatha! Music and traveled extensively sharing the Gospel through his music. He was severely overweight and died at age 26...

. For additional information on the song itself, see "Shotgun Angel (song)

Shotgun Angel (song)

Shotgun Angel is the title of a song written by Bill Sprouse Jr..The song was inspired by the many all night drives to and from concerts by Sprouse and his band The Road Home. As the band traveled in two old vans, they kept each other awake by talking and singing over the CB radio...

".

The album is named after the song of the same name, which is also found on the album. The song was written years earlier by Bill Sprouse Jr. for his band The Road Home. After Sprouse's untimely death at age twenty-six, Mike Shoup dug up an old four-track tape and asked Dom Franco of the Maranatha!

Maranatha! Music

Maranatha! Music began as a non-profit outreach of Calvary Chapel in 1971. The Jesus People of the late 1960s and early 1970s began to write new hymns and worship songs with a folk-rock style. Maranatha! Music was founded at this time in order to publish and promote this new type of Christian...

 group Bethlehem to add pedal steel guitar to the song. When Daniel Amos

Daniel Amos

Daniel Amos is a rock band formed in 1974 by Terry Scott Taylor on guitars and vocals, Marty Dieckmeyer on bass guitar, Steve Baxter on guitars and Jerry Chamberlain on lead guitars. Current members include bassist Tim Chandler, guitarist Greg Flesch and drummer Ed McTaggart...

 heard it they enlisted Franco to play the pedal steel and Mike and Ed to add the CB radio voices on the recording. Not only did it become a popular song at the time for D.A., it would also become the title of their second album.

Although DA's previous release was largely country, this album marked the start of a return to the band's pre-label roots, rock and roll, which took some of their country fans by surprise. Shotgun Angel was half country and half rock-opera. The 'side two' of the LP featured lush orchestrations and a string of rock songs linked together in a way that was reminiscent of The Beatles

The Beatles

The Beatles were an English rock band, active throughout the 1960s and one of the most commercially successful and critically acclaimed acts in the history of popular music. Formed in Liverpool, by 1962 the group consisted of John Lennon , Paul McCartney , George Harrison and Ringo Starr...

 Sgt. Peppers album. The band even made a number of concert performances at this time with a full orchestra backing them.

In 1986, the entire "side two" of the album was remixed and re-released on a collection called The Revelation

The Revelation (album)

The Revelation is the title of a 1986 remix album by rock band Daniel Amos, released on Frontline Records.The Revelation is a reworking of the popular "side 2" of the band's 1977 album, Shotgun Angel. All of the tracks were remixed, and one bonus track was recorded, the Phil Spector inspired Soon...

. The song "Soon!" was also added.

In 2001 M8 distributed a two-CD Shotgun Angel: 25th Anniversary Edition. The first CD was a re-issue of the original album while the second featured a two-part interview with Terry Taylor and Jerry Chamberland on "The Rock & Religion Show.

In June of 2011, Daniel Amos released Shotgun Angel Collectors Deluxe Edition. The collection included the entire album newly remastered, a 24 page booklet with full lyrics and newly discovered photos, unreleased songs, studio outtakes and other rarities. The collection included two CDs of material, a total of 26 bonus tracks in a digipak.

Side one

1. "Days And Nights" (Taylor/Chamberlain)
2. "Black Gold Fever" (Taylor)
3. "Praise Song" (Taylor)
4. "Father's Arms" (Taylor)
5. "Meal" (Taylor)
6. "Shotgun Angel
   Shotgun Angel (song)
   Shotgun Angel is the title of a song written by Bill Sprouse Jr..The song was inspired by the many all night drives to and from concerts by Sprouse and his band The Road Home. As the band traveled in two old vans, they kept each other awake by talking and singing over the CB radio...
   
   " (Bill Sprouse, Jr)

Side two

1. "Finale: Bereshith Overture" (Stipech/Taylor/Cook)
2. "Lady Goodbye" (Taylor/Chamberlain/Cook)
3. "The Whistler" (Taylor/Chamberlain/Cook)
4. "He's Gonna Do A Number On You" (Cook)
5. "Better" (Taylor/Chamberlain/Cook)
6. "Sail Me Away" (Taylor/Chamberlain)
7. "Posse In The Sky" (Taylor)

2011 Deluxe Edition Bonus Disc

1. "Jonah and the Whale" (Sept 1976 4 track demo, with Steve Baxter)
2. "Fathers Arms" (Sept 1976 4 track demo 1)
3. "Posse In The Sky" (Sept 1976 4 track demo 1)
4. "Fathers Arms" (Dec 1976 demo 2)
5. "Black Gold Fever" (Dec 1976 demo)
6. "Praise Song" (Dec 1976 demo)
7. "Meal" (Dec 1976 demo)
8. "Shotgun Angel" (Dec 1976 demo)
9. "Finale: Bereshith Overture" (Dec 1976 demo)
10. "Lady Goodbye" (Dec 1976 demo)
11. "The Whistler" (Dec 1976 demo)
12. "He's Gonna Do A Number On You" (Dec 1976 demo)
13. "Better" (Dec 1976 demo)
14. "Sail Me Away" (Dec 1976 demo)
15. "Posse In The Sky" (Dec 1976 demo 2)
16. Maranatha Music Show- In The Studio (Hosted by John Styll) April 1977 Studio Snippet
17. "Days and Nights" (alt. mix)
18. "Black Gold Fever" (alt. mix)
19. "Meal" (alt. mix)
20. "Shotgun Bagel"
21. "Lady Goodbye" (alt. mix)
22. "The Whistler" (alt. mix)
23. "He's Gonna Do A Number On You" (alt. mix)
24. "Better" (alt. mix)
25. "Sail Me Away" (alt. mix)
26. Looney Tunes

Personnel

• Terry Scott Taylor
  Terry Scott Taylor
  Terry Scott Taylor is an American songwriter, record producer, writer and founding member of the bands Daniel Amos and The Swirling Eddies . Taylor is also a member of the roots and alternative music group, Lost Dogs. He is currently based in San Jose, California, USA.Taylor is highly regarded for...
  
  : rhythm guitar
  Rhythm guitar
  Rhythm guitar is a technique and rôle that performs a combination of two functions: to provide all or part of the rhythmic pulse in conjunction with singers or other instruments; and to provide all or part of the harmony, ie. the chords, where a chord is a group of notes played together...
  
  s, vocals
• Jerry Chamberlain
  Jerry Chamberlain
  Jerry Chamberlain , is a United States singer, songwriter, guitarist, and producer, best known for his work with the rock bands Daniel Amos and The Swirling Eddies ....
  
  : lead guitar
  Guitar
  The guitar is a plucked string instrument, usually played with fingers or a pick. The guitar consists of a body with a rigid neck to which the strings, generally six in number, are attached. Guitars are traditionally constructed of various woods and strung with animal gut or, more recently, with...
  
  , vocals
• Mark Cook
  Mark Cook
  Mark Cook is an American songwriter and keyboardist, best known for playing keyboards in the 1970s rock group Daniel Amos. Mark Cook later left the group to become a Calvary Chapel Pastor....
  
  : keyboards
  Keyboard instrument
  A keyboard instrument is a musical instrument which is played using a musical keyboard. The most common of these is the piano. Other widely used keyboard instruments include organs of various types as well as other mechanical, electromechanical and electronic instruments...
  
  , vocals
• Marty Dieckmeyer
  Marty Dieckmeyer
  Marty Dieckmeyer was the bass guitar player for the Christian rock band Daniel Amos from 1974 to 1981. Dieckmeyer sang the lead vocal on the song "Props" from the ¡Alarma! album in 1981...
  
  : bass, backing vocals
• Ed McTaggart
  Ed McTaggart
  Ed McTaggart is an American drummer and artist. He is best known as the drummer of the rock band Daniel Amos.McTaggart joined DA in 1976, after years of playing with Bill Sprouse Jr.'s band The Road Home....
  
  : Drums
  Drum kit
  A drum kit is a collection of drums, cymbals and often other percussion instruments, such as cowbells, wood blocks, triangles, chimes, or tambourines, arranged for convenient playing by a single person ....
  
  , backing vocals

Production notes

• Alex MacDougall
  Alex MacDougall
  Alex MacDougall is an American record producer, and percussionist. MacDougall is best known for being a member of the Christian rock band Daniel Amos in the late 1970s in addition to his production and recording session credits...
  
  , Fred Petry: Percussion
• Pete Jacobs: Clarinets on "Black Gold Fever"
• Dom Franco: Pedal Steel Guitar
• Frank Marocco: Accordion
• Dan Amos: Carrot Choir, Celery Symphony on "Meal"
• John Benson: Eefin' on "Meal"
• Michael Wayne Shoup: CB
• Bill Hoppe: Additional FX/Synthesizers
• Produced & Engineered by Jonathan David Brown
  Jonathan David Brown
  Jonathan David Brown is an American record producer and audio engineer known for his work on albums released in the Contemporary Christian music industry...
  
  
• Strings Arranged and Conducted by Jim Stipech
• Recorded at: MartinSound Studios, Alhambra, California
• Mixed by Jonathan David Brown (alias "Your Local Hokie Okie") at Producers' Workshop, Hollyweird, California
• Bonus demos recorded and owned by Michael Wayne Shoup
• Bonus re-mixes by Eric Townsend
  Eric Townsend
  Eric W. Townsend is an American musician and record producer best known for his work with music and video releases by Daniel Amos, The 77s, The Swirling Eddies and The Lost Dogs, through the record labels Stunt Records and Fools of the World.Townsend's great uncle was author Ira Jones, former...
  
  
• Re-Mastered by J Powell at Steinhaus
• Cover Concept by Daniel Amos
• Original Art Direction, Design and Layout by Neal Buchanan
• Photographs by Larry Frowick, Scott Lockwood, and others
• 2011 Reissue Design and Layout by Tom Gulotta
  Tom Gulotta
  Tom Gulotta is best known as the head of the Stunt Records label, which was formed in 1990 with Daniel Amos frontman, Terry Scott Taylor....
  
  and Eric Townsend
• Re-Issue Producers: Matthew Hunt, Tom Gulotta and Eric Townsend