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The American in Me

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Released
  
April 20, 2004

Length
  
39:22

Release date
  
20 April 2004

Genre
  
Punk rock

Recorded
  
1978–79

Artist
  
Avengers

Label
  
DBK Works

The American in Me (2004)
  
Live at Winterland 1978 (2010)

Similar
  
Died for Your Sins, Zero Hour, Live at Winterland 1978

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The American in Me is a compilation album by the Avengers. It was released on April 20, 2004 on DBK Works. The album is composed of four studio recordings from 1978 and a live concert recorded at the Old Waldorf in San Francisco, CA on June 13, 1979. The concert was previously released on Zero Hour one year earlier.

Contents

Cover versions

Pearl Jam played the song "American in Me" as part of a surprise in-store performance held on April 29, 2005 at Easy Street Records in West Seattle, WA, in support of the Coalition of Independent Music Stores. It is featured on their 2006 live EP Live at Easy Street. They also have been playing it live between 2004 (Vote For Change tour) and 2006, and with Penelope Houston and Greg Ingraham on 16.07.2006 San Francisco, California, BG Civic Auditorium.

Track listing

  1. "We Are the One" – 2:39
  2. "The American in Me" – 2:07
  3. "White Nigger" – 3:29
  4. "Uh-Oh" – 3:07
  5. "Cheap Tragedies" – 3:30
  6. "Zero Hour" – 3:23
  7. "Corpus Christi" – 3:04
  8. "Release Me" – 4:33
  9. "Uh-Oh" – 3:23
  10. "Misery (Finger on the Trigger)" – 3:05
  11. "Time To Die" – 5:05
  12. "The American In Me" – 2:10

Personnel

  • Penelope Houston – vocals
  • Greg Ingraham – guitar on tracks 1–4
  • Brad Kent – guitar on tracks 5–12
  • Danny Furious – drums
  • Jimmy Wilsey – bass
  • Songs

    1We Are the One2:39
    2The American in Me2:09
    3White Nigger3:29

    References

    The American in Me Wikipedia