The Best of the Radiators: Songs from the Ancient Furnace
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The Best of the Radiators: Songs from the Ancient Furnace is the second compilation album from The Radiators
, released by Epic Records
in 1997.
The Radiators (US)
The Radiators, also known as The New Orleans Radiators, are a rock band from New Orleans, Louisiana, who have combined the traditional musical styles of their native city with more mainstream rock and R&B influences to form a bouncy, funky variety of swamp-rock they call fish-head music...
, released by Epic Records
Epic Records
Epic Records is an American record label, owned by Sony Music Entertainment. Though it was originally conceived as a jazz imprint, it has since expanded to represent various genres. L.A...
in 1997.
Overview
The album features excerpts from the band's three studio albums with Epic Records, as well as seven previously unreleased tracks, including a live version of "Love is a Tangle".Track listing
- "Nail Your Heart to Mine" (Ed VolkerEd VolkerEd Volker, aka Zeke is a singer, songwriter and keyboard player from New Orleans, Louisiana, and a founding member of the legendary New Orleans band, The Radiators...
) - "Like Dreamers Do" (Volker)
- "Confidential" (Volker)
- "Little Paradise" (Volker)
- "Zigzagging Through Ghostland" (Volker)
- "Doctor Doctor" (Volker, Dave Malone, Camile Baudoin, Reggie Scanlan, Frank Bua Jr., Glenn Sears)
- "My Whole World Flies Apart"
- "Join the Circus"
- "Let the Red Wine Flow" (Volker, Malone, Baudoin)
- "Fluid Drive"
- "End of Your Rope"
- "Molasses" (Volker, Malone)
- "Moving Day"
- "Love Is a Tangle"
Credits
- Ed VolkerEd VolkerEd Volker, aka Zeke is a singer, songwriter and keyboard player from New Orleans, Louisiana, and a founding member of the legendary New Orleans band, The Radiators...
– keyboardsKeyboard instrumentA keyboard instrument is a musical instrument which is played using a musical keyboard. The most common of these is the piano. Other widely used keyboard instruments include organs of various types as well as other mechanical, electromechanical and electronic instruments...
, vocals, percussionPercussion instrumentA percussion instrument is any object which produces a sound when hit with an implement or when it is shaken, rubbed, scraped, or otherwise acted upon in a way that sets the object into vibration... - Dave MaloneDave MaloneDave Malone born August 29, 1952 in New Orleans, Louisiana is best known as the guitarist/vocalist, and sometimes songwriter, of The Radiators. He has also worked with a wide variety of other musicians, in and out of New Orleans. He has recorded more than a dozen albums with the Radiators,...
– 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...
s, vocals - Camile BaudoinCamile BaudoinCamile Baudoin is a guitar player from New Orleans, Louisiana and a founding member of The Radiators.Baudoin shares lead guitar duties in The Radiators with Dave Malone, and plays with or without a slide...
– guitars, vocals - Reggie ScanlanReggie ScanlanReggie Scanlan is a bass guitar player and photographer from New Orleans, Louisiana and a founding member of swamp rock band, The Radiators.According to Matthew Haggman of radio station WWOZ in New Orleans, "In the early seventies Scanlan made enough of a name for himself as a bassist to record...
– bassBass guitarThe bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick.... - Frank Bua Jr. – 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 - Glenn Sears – percussion