Released January 18, 1997 Length 4:09 | Genre Country Label Mercury Nashville | |
B-side "All Roads to the River" Writer(s) Gillian Welch, David Rawlings | ||
"455 Rocket" is a song written by Gillian Welch and David Rawlings, and recorded by American country music artist Kathy Mattea. It was released in January 1997 as the first single from the album Love Travels. The song reached number 21 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart.
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Content
The song is about a woman who owns an Oldsmobile with a 455 V8 engine.
Critical reception
Billboard magazine gave the song a mixed review, saying that it was "cleverly written" but that "neither Mattea's vocal energy nor the production pace infuses the song with the sass and sizzle the lyric suggests."
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