''Spend a Night in the Box'' is the sixth album by

The Reverend Horton Heat The Reverend Horton Heat is the stage name of American musician James C. Heath (born 1959) as well as the name of his Dallas, Texas-based psychobilly trio. Heath is a singer, songwriter and guitarist. A ''Prick'' magazine reviewer called Heath ...

. It was released by

Time Bomb Recordings Time Bomb Recordings was a Laguna Beach, California-based independent record label, founded in 1995 by artist manager Jim Guerinot in a joint-venture agreement with Arista Records. In the following five years, the artist roster grew to encompass ...

in 2000.

Production

The album, produced by

Paul Leary Paul Leary Walthall (born May 7, 1957), known as Paul Leary, is an American musician and music producer from Austin, Texas, best known as the lead guitarist and occasional lead vocalist for the American rock band Butthole Surfers. He is also the ...

, was recorded at Pedernales Studios, in Texas. Jim "Reverend Horton" Heath played a 1954 Gibson ES-175 on the album.

Critical reception

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'' called the album "good, basic, well-produced country and swing-influenced rockabilly." ''

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'' panned the "Gap-ready numbers like 'Sleeper Coach Driver' and 'Hand It to Me'," writing that "one Big Bad Voodoo Daddy is more than enough." ''

Trouser Press ''Trouser Press'' was a rock and roll magazine started in New York in 1974 as a mimeographed fanzine by editor/publisher Ira Robbins, fellow fan of the Who Dave Schulps and Karen Rose under the name "Trans-Oceanic Trouser Press" (a reference to ...

'' wrote that "The Rev relocated his songwriting mojo for an album full of tasty rockabilly, swinging grooves and good old-fashioned stomp." ''

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'' deemed it "a skillfully choreographed saloon rumble of an album."

Track listing

All songs written by Jim Heath except as noted. # "Spend a Night in the Box" – 3:07 # "Big D Boogie Woogie" – 2:55 # "Sleeper Coach Driver" – 3:24 # "The Girl in Blue" – 3:52 # "Sue Jack Daniels" – 3:31 # "Hand It to Me" – 3:23 # "I'll Make Love" – 2:20 # "It Hurts Your Daddy Bad" – 4:04 # "The Bedroom Again" – 3:22 # "King" – 2:41 # "Whole Lotta Baby" – 3:42 # "The Millionaire" (Heath/Churilla) – 3:56 # "Unlucky in Love" – 4:33 # "The Party in Your Head" – 3:55

Personnel

*Jim "Reverend Horton" Heath -

guitar The guitar is a fretted musical instrument that typically has six strings. It is usually held flat against the player's body and played by strumming or plucking the strings with the dominant hand, while simultaneously pressing selected stri ...

vocals Singing is the act of creating musical sounds with the voice. A person who sings is called a singer, artist or vocalist (in jazz and/or popular music). Singers perform music (arias, recitatives, songs, etc.) that can be sung with or without ...

*Jimbo Wallace -

upright bass The double bass (), also known simply as the bass () (or #Terminology, by other names), is the largest and lowest-pitched Bow (music), bowed (or plucked) string instrument in the modern orchestra, symphony orchestra (excluding unorthodox addit ...

*Scott Churilla -

drums A drum kit (also called a drum set, trap set, or simply drums) is a collection of drums, cymbals, and other Percussion instrument, auxiliary percussion instruments set up to be played by one person. The player (drummer) typically holds a pair o ...

*Tim Alexander -

piano The piano is a stringed keyboard instrument in which the strings are struck by wooden hammers that are coated with a softer material (modern hammers are covered with dense wool felt; some early pianos used leather). It is played using a keyboa ...

(on "Sleeper Coach Driver"), piano and

organ Organ may refer to: Biology * Organ (biology), a part of an organism Musical instruments * Organ (music), a family of keyboard musical instruments characterized by sustained tone ** Electronic organ, an electronic keyboard instrument ** Hammond ...

(on "Hand It to Me"),

accordion Accordions (from 19th-century German ''Akkordeon'', from ''Akkord''—"musical chord, concord of sounds") are a family of box-shaped musical instruments of the bellows-driven free-reed aerophone type (producing sound as air flows past a reed ...

and bajo quinto ("Unlucky in Love") *Paul Leary - producer, mixer *Stuart Sullivan - mixer, engineer *Scott J. Weiss - management *Jolie Clemens - artwork *Jennifer Broussard -

photography Photography is the art, application, and practice of creating durable images by recording light, either electronically by means of an image sensor, or chemically by means of a light-sensitive material such as photographic film. It is employed ...

Charts

References

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