The Rainmakers Self Title Debut NM LP Mercury 830 214-1
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The Rainmakers Self Titled Debut NM LP Mercury 830 214-11986
Near Mint LP by The Rainmakers . 1986 Canadian Release. The cover is NM Vinyl is NM and The insert/lyric sheet is pristine.
TRACKS
Track listing
1. Rockin' At The T-Dance
2. Downstream
3. Let My People Go-Go
4. Doomsville
5. Big Fat Blonde
6. Long Gone Long
7. The One That Got Away,
8. Government Cheese
9. Drinkin' On The Job
10. Nobody Knows
11. Information
Details Playing time:40 min.
Contributing artists:The Memphis Horns
Producer:Terry Manning
Album notes
Cross a more literate John Mellencamp with Webb Wilder and you have this Kansas City band sized up. The debut release sets the bar high with cutting social commentary and memorable tunes that include "Downstream" and the unapologetic "Big Fat Blonde." In the former tune alone, bandleader and songwriter Bob Walkenhorst mentions Mark Twain, Harry Truman, and Chuck Berry. From "Drinkin' on the Job" comes the classic line, "The generation that would change the world is still looking for its car keys."
The Rainmakers were a Kansas City, Missouri-based original rock band, fronted by Bob Walkenhorst, which had a small string of hits in the late 1980s and early 1990s in the United States and Europe, especially Norway.
The Rainmakers were formed in 1983 as a three-piece bar band called 'Steve, Bob and Rich,' which "quickly became popular throughout the Midwest," according to one Amazon.com review. They released one album, Balls, under this name. The addition of drummer Pat Tomek allowed Walkenhorst to switch to guitar and assume the role of frontman. The band changed their name to The Rainmakers when they were signed to Polygram by A&R man Peter Lubin.
The band's self-titled 1986 debut album received positive reviews in the U.S. entertainment media including Newsweek magazine, which dubbed it "the most auspicious debut album of the year," and reached #87 on the U.S. Billboard album chart. The band made a fan of horror writer Stephen King, who quoted the band's lyrics in his novels The Tommyknockers and Gerald's Game. The album, however, achieved its greatest commercial success overseas. In the United Kingdom, the single "Let My People Go-Go" broke into the Top 20 in the UK Singles Chart.
Their follow-up album, 1987's Tornado, peaked at #116 on the U.S. chart. The Rainmakers released one more studio album, 1989's The Good News and The Bad News, and one live album, 1990's Oslo-Wichita Live, which were successful in Europe.
However, Scandinavian interest in their music remained high, so they reformed and released a new album, Flirting with the Universe, in 1994. The album achieved the equivalent of gold record status in Norway in one month. One more album, Skin, followed in 1996 before the band broke up for good.
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