''Nitro Burnin' Funny Daddy'' is the eleventh solo album from American musician

Brian Setzer Brian Robert Setzer (born April 10, 1959) is an American guitarist, singer, and songwriter. He found widespread success in the early 1980s with the 1950s-style rockabilly group Stray Cats, and returned to the music scene in the early 1990s with ...

, released in 2003 on Surfdog Records. He said, when released, that it was the most personal record he had ever done. He ventured away from his traditional "hot rod rockabilly side" and wrote more about love ("That Someone Just Ain't You"), faith ("St. Jude") and death ("Sixty Years").

Track listing

All songs written by Brian Setzer, unless otherwise stated. # "Sixty Years" - 4:42 # "Don't Trust a Woman (In a Black Cadillac)" - 3:46 # "When The Bells Don't Chime" - 3:07 # "That Someone Just Ain't You" - 3:55 # "Rat Pack Boogie" - 4:21 # "Ring, Ring, Ring" - 2:47 # "Drink Whiskey and Shut Up" - 4:25 # "Smokin' 'N Burnin'" - 4:25 # "Wild Wind" (

Terry Gilkyson Terry Gilkyson (June 17, 1916 – October 15, 1999) was an American folk singer and songwriter. Biography Gilkyson was born Hamilton Henry Gilkyson in Phoenixville, Pennsylvania, and graduated from St. George's School in Middletown, Rhode Is ...

) - 3:16 # "St. Jude" - 4:28 # "To Be Loved" (Ken Goodloe, Joe Jones, Carl McGinnis, Otis Munson, Ted Goodloe) - 2:22 # "When The Bells Don't Chime" (Banjo Mix) - 3:07

Personnel

* Brian Setzer - lead

vocals Singing is the art of creating music with the voice. It is the oldest form of musical expression, and the human voice can be considered the first musical instrument. The definition of singing varies across sources. Some sources define sing ...

electric guitar An electric guitar is a guitar that requires external electric Guitar amplifier, sound amplification in order to be heard at typical performance volumes, unlike a standard acoustic guitar. It uses one or more pickup (music technology), pickups ...

banjo The banjo is a stringed instrument with a thin membrane stretched over a frame or cavity to form a resonator. The membrane is typically circular, and in modern forms is usually made of plastic, where early membranes were made of animal skin. ...

* Johnny Hatton -

double bass The double bass (), also known as the upright bass, the acoustic bass, the bull fiddle, or simply the bass, is the largest and lowest-pitched string instrument, chordophone in the modern orchestra, symphony orchestra (excluding rare additions ...

Bernie Dresel Bernard John Dresel Jr. (born November 12, 1961) is an American studio drummer and percussionist. He has been with multi-Grammy award-winning artists and recordings; most notably having performed and recorded extensively with The Brian Setzer Or ...

drums The drum is a member of the percussion instrument, percussion group of musical instruments. In the Hornbostel–Sachs classification system, it is a membranophones, membranophone. Drums consist of at least one Acoustic membrane, membrane, c ...

, percussion *Joie Shettler, Julie Reiten - backing vocals ;Technical *Jeff Peters - engineer *

Chris Lord-Alge Chris Lord-Alge is an American mix engineer. He is the brother of both Tom Lord-Alge and Jeff Lord-Alge, both of whom are also audio engineers. Chris and Tom are known for their abundant use of dynamic range compression for molding mixes that ...

- mixing * William Hames - cover photography

References

{{Authority control 2003 albums Brian Setzer albums Surfdog Records albums