''Swingin' Utters'' is an album by American punk rock band

Swingin' Utters Swingin' Utters (often typeset as $wingin' Utter$, and originally called Johnny Peebucks and the Swingin' Utters) is a Californian punk rock band that formed in the late 1980s.Bush, JohnSwingin' Utters Biography, Allmusic, retrieved September 30 ...

, released in 2000. It was produced by

Ryan Greene Ryan Greene is an American record producer, sound engineer, former owner of Crush Recording Studios in Scottsdale, Arizona and founder of Area 52 Entertainment in Los Angeles, California. In an over 25-year-long career he has worked with many ar ...

, and has a folkier sound than the band's previous albums.

Critical reception

'' The Pembroke Observer'' wrote that "the opening track, 'Pills and Smoke', is immediately so retro sounding that it could reel anyone back into the days of crash and burn English punk rock, whereas 'Watching the Wayfarers' is a superb rockabilly, country blues number that's complete with mandolin and upright bass." The ''

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'' wrote that the Utters "toss in elements of

cowpunk Cowpunk (or country punk) is a subgenre of punk rock that began in the United Kingdom and Southern California in the late 1970s - early 1980s. It combines punk rock or new wave with country, folk, and blues in its sound, lyrical subject matter ...

, folk/rock and melody ... heirsongs stretch boundaries with instrumentation such as upright bass, violin, piano, cello and mandolin."

Track listing

All songs written by Darius Koski, except for where noted. # "Pills & Smoke" – 2:34 # "Taken Train" – 2:11 # "Watching the Wayfarers" – 1:55 # "The Note" ''(Max Huber)'' – 2:51 # "Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter?" ''(Huber)'' – 2:33 # "Playboys, Punks, and Pretty Things" – 3:05 # "Second Skin" – 1:59 # "Eddie's Teddy" ''(O'Brien)'' – 2:44 # "Teen Idol Eyes" ''(Johnny Bonnel, Koski)'' – 2:25 # "The Green Glass" ''(Huber)'' – 2:00 # "Scum Grief" – 2:19 # "Another Day" – 1:58 # "Step Inside this Room" – 2:36 # "Little Creeps" – 2:00 # "My Glass House" ''(Aust Koski, Koski)'' – 3:28

Personnel

Johnny Bonnel Johnny "Peebucks" Bonnel (born August 7, 1967) is the lead singer and a songwriter of the punk rock band Swingin' Utters and the alternative punk rock band Filthy Thievin' Bastards. His new project is called Druglords of the Avenues. His nick ...

(

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 witho ...

) * Max Huber (

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 string ...

, vocals; lead vocals on "The Note") *

Darius Koski Darius Olavi Koski (born January 3, 1971) is the US-American lead guitarist and songwriter of the punk rock band Swingin' Utters, the alternative punk rock bands Filthy Thievin' Bastards and the Re-volts The Re-Volts are an American punk band ...

(guitar, vocals, accordion,

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 ...

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violin The violin, sometimes known as a ''fiddle'', is a wooden chordophone (string instrument) in the violin family. Most violins have a hollow wooden body. It is the smallest and thus highest-pitched instrument (soprano) in the family in regular ...

; lead vocals on "Watching the Wayfarers" and "My Glass House") * Greg McEntee (

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

) *

Spike Slawson Spike Slawson is an American punk rock musician, a member of Me First and the Gimme Gimmes, Swingin' Utters, Filthy Thievin' Bastards, Re-Volts, and Uke-Hunt. Early life Having grown up in Pittsburgh, Slawson worked in the mail order depart ...

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bass guitar The bass guitar, electric bass or simply bass (), is the lowest-pitched member of the string family. It is a plucked string instrument similar in appearance and construction to an electric or an acoustic guitar, but with a longer neck and s ...

, vocals; lead vocals on "The Green Glass"; guitar on "Scum Grief" and "Teen Idol Eyes") Additional musicians: * Max Butler (

pedal steel guitar The pedal steel guitar is a console-type of steel guitar with pedals and knee levers that change the pitch of certain strings to enable playing more varied and complex music than any previous steel guitar design. Like all steel guitars, it can ...

mandolin A mandolin ( it, mandolino ; literally "small mandola") is a stringed musical instrument in the lute family and is generally plucked with a pick. It most commonly has four courses of doubled strings tuned in unison, thus giving a total of 8 ...

) * Pat Johnson (

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 musica ...

) * Mikey Porter (

cello The cello ( ; plural ''celli'' or ''cellos'') or violoncello ( ; ) is a Bow (music), bowed (sometimes pizzicato, plucked and occasionally col legno, hit) string instrument of the violin family. Its four strings are usually intonation (music), t ...

) * Rockin' Lloyd Tripp (

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 ...

on "Watching the Wayfarers") *

(

percussion A percussion instrument is a musical instrument that is sounded by being struck or scraped by a beater including attached or enclosed beaters or rattles struck, scraped or rubbed by hand or struck against another similar instrument. Exc ...

)

References

External links

Swingin' Utters official discography
Swingin' Utters albums Fat Wreck Chords albums 2000 albums Albums produced by Ryan Greene Cowpunk albums Folk rock albums by American artists {{2000s-punk-album-stub