''Antler Dance'' is the fourth album by
Minneapolis
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Celtic rock
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band
Boiled in Lead
Boiled in Lead is a rock/world-music band based in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and founded in 1983. Tim Walters of ''MusicHound Folk'' called the group "the most important folk-rock band to appear since the 1970s." Influential record producer and mu ...
. It was the band's first recording with vocalist/guitarist
Adam Stemple, who replaced Todd Menton after his departure in 1992. Founding bassist Drew Miller has called this personnel change the most significant shift in the band's history.
Fiddler Josef Kessler also replaced the departed David Stenshoel. Stemple's addition to the band led to a heavier, more heavy metal-influenced sound,
as well as a strengthening of the band's ties to the science fiction and fantasy community.
Two songs on ''Antler Dance'' were co-written by fantasy novelist and Stemple's
Cats Laughing
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bandmate
Steven Brust, and "Robin's Complaint" was written by Stemple's mother, novelist
Jane Yolen
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. The album also includes covers of
Boney M.'s "
Rasputin
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" and
Bruce Springsteen's "State Trooper", originally from his album ''
Nebraska
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''.
Track listing
References
1994 albums
Boiled in Lead albums
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