The Notorious Cherry Bombs (album)

Infobox Album
Name = The Notorious Cherry Bombs
Type = studio
Artist = The Notorious Cherry Bombs


Released = start date|2004|7|27
Recorded =
Genre = Country
Length =
Label = Universal South
Producer = The Notorious Cherry Bombs
Reviews = Allmusic - rating|4|5 [http://wm10.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:hifyxq9sldfe link]

"The Notorious Cherry Bombs" is the self-titled debut album by the American country music group The Notorious Cherry Bombs, a band that formerly served as country singer Rodney Crowell's backing band in the 1980s. This is the band's only studio album, with Crowell and Vince Gill alternating as lead vocalists. Released in 2004 on Universal South Records, the album produced one chart single in "It's Hard to Kiss the Lips at Night That Chew Your Ass Out All Day Long". "Making Memories of Us" was previously recorded by Tracy Byrd on his 2003 album "The Truth About Men", and later in 2004 by Keith Urban on his album "Be Here"; Urban's rendition was released as a single, reaching Number One on the country charts in 2005.

Track listing

#"Let It Roll, Let It Ride" (Rodney Crowell, Vince Gill) - 3:53
#"If I Ever Break Your Heart" (Crowell) - 3:25
#"Wait a Minute" (Crowell, Hank DeVito) - 2:49
#"Making Memories of Us" (Crowell) - 4:05
#"Oklahoma Dust" (Gill, Leslie Satcher) - 2:35
#"Dangerous Curves" (Crowell, Gill) - 4:21
#"Forever Someday" (Gill) - 3:32
#"On the Road to Ruin" (Crowell) - 3:27
#"Heart of a Jealous Man" (Gill, Max D. Barnes) - 4:02
#"It's Hard to Kiss the Lips at Night That Chew Your Ass Out All Day Long" (Crowell, Gill) - 4:24
#"Sweet Little Lisa" (DeVito, Donivan Cowart, Walter Cowart) - 2:44
#"Let It Roll, Let It Ride" (reprise) (Crowell, Gill) - 7:09^A

^ATrack 12 includes an alternate version of "It's Hard to Kiss the Lips at Night That Chew Your Ass Out All Day Long" as a hidden track.

Personnel

The Notorious Cherry Bombs

*Eddie Bayers - drums, percussion, background vocals
*Richard Bennett - acoustic guitar, electric guitar, bouzouki, cavaquinho, bass guitar
*Rodney Crowell - acoustic guitar, steel guitar, lead vocals, background vocals
*Hank DeVito - acoustic guitar, steel guitar, Dobro, background vocals
*Vince Gill - acoustic guitar, electric guitar, mandolin, banjo, Dobro, lead vocals, background vocals
*John Hobbs - piano, keyboard, organ, background vocals
*Michael Rhodes - bass guitar, background vocals

Additional musicians

*Jenny Gill - background vocals
*Steve Herman - trumpet
*Mike Porter - tambourine