The Big Heat

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Personnel includes: Stan Ridgway (vocals, guitar, banjo, harmonica, keyboards, bass); Eric Williams (guitar); Joe Ramirez (guitar, bass, drum programming, background vocals); Mark Cohen (banjo, mandolin); Mr. Christopher (violin, cello); Jim Pollack (saxophone); Bruce Fowler (trombone); Richard Greene (piano); Bill Noland, Hugh Jones, Louis Van Den Berg (keyboards); Mike Watt, Louis Cabasa (bass); Joe Berardi, Chris Becerra, Cliff Martinez (drums); Hugo Burnham, Steve Reid (percussion); Pietra Wexstun (keyboards, background vocals). Recorded at J.C. Studios, The Lighthouse and Fiddler's Studio, Los Angeles, California; and live at Queensland University, Brisbane, Australia on February 27, 1987. Digitally remastered at Audio Mechanics. This is part of the IRS Vintage Years series. The Big Heat has Stan Ridgway's love of film noir and Jim Thompson-style stories splashed gaudily all over it. The album is tremendous fun, even with its dependence on synthesizers and drum-machine work, since Ridgway's cynical delivery gives everything else an edge, even in the romance-gone-wrong atmosphere of "Walkin' Home Alone." The standouts include the Ennio Morricone-influenced title track, the demented "Pile Driver," "Drive She Said," and the over-the-top Vietnam tale "Camouflage." ~ Steven McDonald