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Casual Gods

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Released
  
February, 1988

Release date
  
February 1988

Label
  
Sire Records

Length
  
55:54

Producer
  
Jerry Harrison

Genre
  
Rock music

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Recorded
  
D.V. Recording, Milwaukee, Wisconsin; Sigma Sound, New York, NY

Artists
  
Jerry Harrison, Casual Gods

Similar
  
Jerry Harrison albums, Rock music albums

Casual Gods was the second solo album by Jerry Harrison. His third, Walk on Water, also bore the Casual Gods name as a proxy for the band.

Contents

The track "Man with A Gun" featured in the film Two Moon Junction, and the instrumental version of the same song was used in the Jonathan Demme film Something Wild.

Track listing

All tracks were written by Jerry Harrison, except where indicated

  1. "Rev It Up" (Jerry Harrison, John Sieger, Ernie Brooks) – 4:17
  2. "Song of Angels" – 3:35
  3. "Man With A Gun" – 4:35
  4. "Let It Come Down" – 4:52
  5. "Cherokee Chief" (Jerry Harrison, Ernie Brooks) – 4:30
  6. "A Perfect Lie" (Jerry Harrison, Arthur Russell, Ernie Brooks) – 4:25
  7. "Are You Running?" (Jerry Harrison, Ernie Brooks, Monique Dayan) – 4:20
  8. "Breakdown in the Passing Lane" - 4:37
  9. "A.K.A. Love" (Jerry Harrison, Ernie Brooks) – 4:10
  10. "We're Always Talking" (Jerry Harrison, Ernie Brooks) – 4:40
  11. "Bobby" (Jerry Harrison, Ernie Brooks) – 4:03
  12. "Bobby" (Extended Mix) (Jerry Harrison, Ernie Brooks) - 6:58

The extended mix of "Bobby" did not appear on the LP or cassette versions of the album, but was featured as the B-side of the "Rev It Up" 45rpm single. "Breakdown in the Passing Lane" was not on the original U.S. LP release.

Personnel

  • Jerry Harrison – guitar, keyboards, vocals
  • Alex Weir, Chris Spedding, Robbie McIntosh - guitar
  • Alex Weir - bass
  • Bernie Worrell - keyboards
  • Rick Jaeger, David Van Tieghem, Yogi Horton - drums, percussion
  • Dickie Landry - saxophone
  • Arlene Holmes, Lovelace Richmond, Monique Dayan, Arthur Russell, Joyce Bowden - background vocals

    • Songs

    1Rev It Up4:11
    2Song of Angels3:37
    3Man With a Gun4:41

    References

    Casual Gods Wikipedia
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