Hotheads
{{short description|1986 album by Boiled in Lead}}
{{Infobox album
| name = Hotheads
| type = studio
| artist = Boiled in Lead
| cover = Boiled_in_Lead_Hotheads_album_cover.jpg
| alt =
| released = 1986
| recorded =
| venue =
| studio =
| genre = Celtic rock/Celtic punk, folk punk, gypsy punk
| length =
| label = Atomic Theory Records
| producer =
| prev_title = Boiled in Lead
| prev_year = 1985
| next_title = From the Ladle to the Grave
| next_year = 1989
}}
{{Album reviews
| rev1 = AllMusic
| rev1Score = {{rating|3|5}}{{AllMusic|class=album|id=mw0000274217|tab=review |label="Boiled in Lead: Old Lead" |first= Chip |last= Renner |accessdate=11 June 2015}}
| rev2 = Guinness Encyclopedia of Popular Music
| rev2Score = {{rating|3|4}}{{cite encyclopedia | editor-last = Larkin | editor-first = Colin | title = Boiled in Lead | encyclopedia = The Guinness Encyclopedia of Popular Music | volume = 5 | pages = 727–728 | publisher = Guinness Publishing | location = Middlesex, England | date = 1995}}
| rev3 = MusicHound Folk
| rev4 = Twin Cities Reader
| rev4Score = {{rating|4.5|5}}{{Citation | last = Keller | first = Martin | title = Boiled in Lead: Hotheads | newspaper = Twin Cities Reader | date = March 1987}}
| rev5 = Green Man Review
}}
Hotheads is the second album by Twin Cities-based alt-rock/world-music band Boiled in Lead. Like its predecessor BOiLeD iN lEaD, it is strongly centered on a blend of alt-rock and traditional Celtic folk, and has been called its "most roundly Celtic" album.{{Citation | last = Jones | first = Simon | title = On the Boil: Simon Jones Investigates Boiled in Lead | journal = Folk Roots | issue = 69 | pages = 20–22 | publisher = Southern Rag Ltd. | location = London | date = March 1989 }}
Style
The album consists largely of traditional folk songs, plus a cover of Ewan MacColl's "Go! Move! Shift! (The Moving-on Song)", but the band's raucous, garage-rock approach to the material displayed a cross-genre sensibility, interpolating country and rockabilly into the mix, that would develop even further on later albums. The shift in sound was partially a consequence of the band's evolving lineup. Fiddle player Dave Stenshoel had replaced the departed Brian Fox, and Todd Menton now joined Jane Dauphin on lead vocals and guitar.
Menton's style lent itself to both traditional takes on folk songs, as on "The House-Husband's Lament," and what Chuck Lipsig of Green Man Review called "a very loud, raucous, and sometimes incomprehensible punk version" of "The Gypsy Rover", which even featured the sound of a chainsaw. Bassist Drew Miller described Boiled in Lead's version as a conscious rejection of the folk-purist ethos: "We gave that song the beating it richly deserved, since it's such a hackneyed standard of the Irish pub circuit."{{cite web|last=Kirman|first=Paula E.|title=Boiled In Lead|url= http://www.insideworldmusic.com/library/weekly/aa072498.htm |work=Inside World Music|accessdate=4 June 2015|date=24 July 1998}}
Hotheads and BOiLeD iN lEaD were later collected on 1991's Old Lead, with two previously unreleased tracks recorded during the Hotheads sessions.
In other media
Both Boiled in Lead and the Hotheads album appear in Emma Bull's 1987 urban fantasy novel War for the Oaks; the band itself has a cameo as the opening act for the protagonists' climactic performance at Minneapolis nightclub First Avenue, while the album appears during a quieter moment earlier in the book, when the main character plays the record while having a conversation.{{cite book|author=Emma Bull|title=War for the Oaks: A Novel|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gftjIGEjlYEC&pg=PA61|date=1 November 2004|publisher=Tom Doherty Associates|isbn=978-0-7653-4915-6|pages=61–}}
Awards
The album won a Minnesota Music Award for Best Celtic/Bluegrass/Folk Album in 1987.{{AllMusic | label = Boiled in Lead| class= artist| id= boiled-in-lead-mn0000081713| tab= biography| first= Steven| last= McDonald| accessdate= June 2, 2015}}
Track listing
{{Track listing
| all_writing = Traditional, processed and arranged by Boiled in Lead, except "Go! Move! Shift!"
| title1 = The Galtee Set
| length1 = 2:35
| title2 = House-Husband's Lament (Rockin' The Cradle)
| length2 = 4:14
| title3 = French Tunes
| length3 = 2:44
| title4 = Castle Kelly
| length4 = 4:39
| title5 = Shamrock Shore
| length5 = 3:11
| title6 = The Gypsy Rover
| length6 = 3:13
| title7 = Bank and Star
| length7 = 1:45
| title8 = Texas
| length8 = 2:41
| title9 = Preacher on a Pony
| length9 = 3:12
| title10 = Go! Move! Shift! (The Moving-on Song)
| writer10 = Ewan MacColl
| length10 = 3:34
| title11 = Jenny Pluck Pears
| length11 = 2:39
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Credits
- Jane Dauphin: Guitar, vocals
- Mitch Griffin: Drums and percussion (also synthesizer on "The Galtee Set", electric guitar and EFX on "Gypsy Rover", piano on "The Bank and Star", keyboards on "Jenny Pluck Pears")
- Todd Menton: Guitar, vocals, tin whistle (also banjo on "French Tunes" and "Texas", saxophone on "Castle Kelly" and "Jenny Pluck Pears", celeste and keyboards on "Shamrock Shore", bodhran on "Preacher on a Pony")
- Drew Miller: Bass guitar (also keyboards on "French Tunes", synthesizer on "Preacher on a Pony", recorders and bass synth on "Jenny Pluck Pears")
- David Rockne Stenshoel: Fiddle, electric mandolin (also e-bow mandolin on "Shamrock Shore", wah-wah mandocaster on "Gypsy Rover", saxophone on "Jenny Pluck Pears")
- Recorded August–October 1985 at Nicollet Studios, Minneapolis
- Produced and mixed by Amos Box for The Crack
- Engineered by Steve Fjelstad
- Mastered by Larry Nix at Ardent Studios, Memphis
- Art direction and illustration by Dan Picasso
- Type by Luke at Great Faces, Inc.
- Photo by Dan Corrigan
- Cover mechanical by Chris Schmid
References
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