The American in Me
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The American in Me is a compilation album
by the Avengers. 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 Old Waldorf in San Francisco, CA
on June 13, 1979. The concert was previously released on Zero Hour one year earlier.
Compilation album
A compilation album is an album featuring tracks from one or more performers, often culled from a variety of sources The tracks are usually collected according to a common characteristic, such as popularity, genre, source or subject matter...
by the Avengers. 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 Old Waldorf in San Francisco, CA
California
California is a state located on the West Coast of the United States. It is by far the most populous U.S. state, and the third-largest by land area...
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
- Penelope HoustonPenelope HoustonPenelope Houston is an American singer-songwriter best known as the singer for the San Francisco-based punk rock band The Avengers. She was raised in Seattle. In the mid-1970s she attended Fairhaven College in Bellingham, Washington...
– vocals - Greg Ingraham – guitarGuitarThe guitar is a plucked string instrument, usually played with fingers or a pick. The guitar consists of a body with a rigid neck to which the strings, generally six in number, are attached. Guitars are traditionally constructed of various woods and strung with animal gut or, more recently, with...
on tracks 1–4 - Brad KentBrad KentBrad Kent played with all of the early Vancouver punk rock bands in one incarnation or another, particularly Victorian Pork, the band which spawned not only D.O.A. but the Pointed Sticks and the Subhumans...
– guitar on tracks 5–12 - Danny Furious – drumDrumThe drum is a member of the percussion group of musical instruments, which is technically classified as the membranophones. Drums consist of at least one membrane, called a drumhead or drum skin, that is stretched over a shell and struck, either directly with the player's hands, or with a...
s - Jimmy WilseyJames WilseyJames Calvin Wilsey is an American musician. He played bass with San Francisco punk band The Avengers but become better known as lead guitarist with Stockton crooner Chris Isaak and his band Silvertone, and featured in Isaak's solo albums Silvertone, Chris Isaak, Heart Shaped World, and San...
– bassBass guitarThe bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....