Zig-Zaggin' Through Ghostland is the fourth album by The Radiators

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...

, and their third studio album.

Overview

After the moderate success of their major label debut, Law of the Fish

Law of the Fish

Law of the Fish is the third album by The Radiators. It is their second studio album and their first major label release.-Overview:After a five-year hiatus from record-making , The Radiators signed with Epic Records and released their first major label album, which helped introduce their...

, the Radiators returned to the studio to create Zig-Zaggin' Through Ghostland. Described as "slightly more aggressive" than its predecessor by Allmusic, the album was also slightly more successful, peaking at #122 on the Billboard 200

Billboard 200

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. The song "Confidential" made it all the way to #8 on the Mainstream Rock Tracks

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Track listing

1. "Confidential" (Ed Volker) — 4:13
2. "Zigzaggin' Through Ghostland" (Volker) — 3:42
3. "Fall of Dark" (Volker) — 4:56
4. "Squeeze Me" (Volker) — 3:38
5. "Love Grows on Ya" (Volker) — 3:56
6. "Dedicated to You" (Volker) — 3:35
7. "But It's Alright" (J. J. Jackson, Pierre Tubbs) — 2:58
8. "Memories of Venus" (Volker) — 3:49
9. "Red Dress" (Dave Malone, Volker) — 3:35
10. "Raw Nerve" (Malone, Volker) — 3:01
11. "I Want to Live" (Volker) — 3:31
12. "Hardcore" (Volker, Malone, Camile Baudoin, Frank Bua Jr., Reggie Scanlan, Glenn Sears) — 6:45
13. "Meet Me Down in Birdland (Volker) — 4:08

Credits

• Ed Volker
  Ed Volker
  Ed 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...
  
   – keyboards
  Keyboard instrument
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  , vocals
  Singing
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• Dave Malone
  Dave Malone
  Dave 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,...
  
   – guitar
  Guitar
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  s, vocals
• Camile Baudoin
  Camile Baudoin
  Camile 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 Scanlan
  Reggie Scanlan
  Reggie 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...
  
   – bass
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• Frank Bua Jr. – drum
  Drum
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  s
• Glenn Sears – percussion
  Percussion instrument
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• Rodney Mills
  Rodney Mills
  Rodney Mills is an American mastering engineer in Atlanta, Georgia.He has been involved in the music industry for over 40 years and has earned over 50 gold and platinum records for engineering, producing, and mastering.- Biography :...
  
   – producer
  Record producer
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  , engineer