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Puss 'n' Boots (album)

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Released
  
October 21, 2003

Artist
  
Crash Test Dummies

Producer
  
Stuart Cameron

Genre
  
Alternative rock

Length
  
45:37

Release date
  
21 October 2003

Label
  
Cha-Ching Records

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Recorded
  
The Magic Shop, New York City

Puss 'n' Boots (2003)
  
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Similar
  
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Puss 'N' Boots is the sixth studio album by Crash Test Dummies, released in 2003. The album began life as a Brad Roberts solo project. While the lyrics were written by Brad Roberts, most of the music was written by Stuart Cameron. Ellen Reid sang backing vocals and Dan Roberts played bass, though much of the music was performed by other musicians.

Contents

Track listing

All lyrics written by Brad Roberts; all music composed by Brad Roberts & Stuart Cameron.

Personnel

  • Brad Roberts, vocals
  • Ellen Reid, backing vocals
  • Dan Roberts, bass guitar
  • Stuart Cameron - acoustic and electric guitars, lap steel, Twelve-string guitar, keyboards, backing vocals on "I'll See What I Can Do", programming/loops on "Your Gun Won't Fire"
  • Chris Brown - Wurlitzer piano, Mellotron, Clavinet, Organ, Piano
  • Ethan Eubanks, drums, loops, percussion
  • Wijnand Jansveld, bass guitar on "Triple Master Blaster"
  • Tina Maddigan, backing vocals on "I'm the Man (That You Are Not)," "Flying Feeling," and "Bye Bye Baby, Goodbye"
  • John Allen Cameron, Twelve-string guitar on "Stupid Same"
  • Jamie Staub, programming/loops on "Your Gun Won't Fire," Congas on "I Never Try That Hard"
  • New York City, City Sounds on "It'll Never Leave You Alone"

    • Reception

    The album received generally mixed reviews. Allmusic writer James Christopher Monger gave the album 3 out of 5 stars and states that "the smoky rhythms and wah-wah guitar that permeate Puss 'n' Boots reflect Roberts' willingness to experience a place -- he currently resides in Harlem -- and to covet and use those experiences in his writing. However, it's the simple, sparse, and honest It'll Never Leave You Alone, a winking look at the pros and cons of chemical indulgence, that leaves the listener with the clearest window into this shape-shifting jester's soul.". In addition, Darryl Sterdan of the Winnipeg Sun states that "with their chicken-scratch wah-wah guitars, sexy backup vocals, slinky slow-burning grooves and swirly production flourishes, these cuts are more earthy and soulful than anything the Dummies ever did, not to mention catchier and more accessible than most of Roberts' recent, idiosyncratic output. Still, from the love-'em-and-leave-'em confessions of It's a Shame to the sex-toy metaphor Triple-Master-Blaster to the good-riddance breakup song Bye-Bye Baby, Goodbye, Puss 'N' Boots is clearly anything but your typical G-rated bedtime story.".

    Songs

    1It's a Shame4:14
    2Everything Is Better With Me3:33
    3Triple Master Blaster2:51

    References

    Puss 'n' Boots (album) Wikipedia
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