''The American in Me'' is a

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. 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

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, CA on June 13, 1979. The concert was previously released on '' Zero Hour'' one year earlier.

Track listing

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

Personnel

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on tracks 1–4 * Brad Kent – guitar on tracks 5–12 * Danny Furious –

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s * Jimmy Wilsey – bass {{DEFAULTSORT:American In Me, The Avengers (band) albums DBK Works albums 2004 compilation albums