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The Cross and the Switchblade (album)

{{Infobox album

| name = The Cross and the Switchblade

| type = studio

| artist = Bantam Rooster

| cover =The Cross and the Switchblade (album).jpg

| alt =

| released = March 23, 1999

| recorded =

| venue =

| studio =

| genre = Garage punk

| length = {{Duration |m=33 |s=54}}

| label = Crypt

| producer = Jim Diamond

| prev_title = Deal Me In

| prev_year = 1997

| next_title = Bless Mess

| next_year = 2000

}}

{{Album ratings

| rev1 = AllMusic

| rev1score = {{Rating|4.5|5}}{{AllMusic|class=album|id=r402843}}

}}

The Cross and the Switchblade is a studio album by the garage punk band Bantam Rooster.{{Cite web|url=https://www.cryptrecords.com/antam-rooster-the-cross-the-switchblade-cd.html|title=BANTAM ROOSTER|website=CRYPT Records}}{{cite web |title=Artist Biography by Mike DaRonco |url=https://www.allmusic.com/artist/bantam-rooster-mn0000786722/biography |website=AllMusic |access-date=8 July 2021}} The album is heavier and more frantic than their debut album, Deal Me In.

Production

The album was produced by Jim Diamond.{{cite web |title=Bantam Rooster The Cross and the Switchblade |url=https://exclaim.ca/music/article/bantam_rooster-cross_switchblade |website=Exclaim! |access-date=8 July 2021}}

Critical reception

The Province wrote that the band "rocks ridiculously hard."{{cite news |last1=Derdeyn |first1=Stuart |title=Grab your dancing shoes |work=The Province |date=1 July 1999 |page=B5}} The Detroit News called the album "a 16-track slab of the yowling, ballistic, tag-team R&B."{{cite news |last1=Case |first1=Wendy |title=Beat Girl: Spring has sprung -- and so have a bevy of CD releases |work=The Detroit News |date=April 30, 1999 |page=1D}} Exclaim! thought that "T. Jackson Potter’s tight, frenzied guitar playing and yelping vocals drive the album along and it’s on winners like 'Safe Cracker', 'Tom Skinner' and 'Outta My Mind' that he really lets loose." Westword deemed it "a downright wicked collection of shifty, soulful garage-blues freakouts."{{cite web |title=Something to Crow About |url=https://www.westword.com/music/something-to-crow-about-5060012 |website=Westword |access-date=8 July 2021}}

Track listing

All songs written by Eric Cook and T. Jackson Potter.

  1. "Safe Cracker" - 1:27
  2. "Soul-Phisticate" - 2:04
  3. "Goin' Cold" - 2:20
  4. "Intro Thang" - 1:06
  5. "New Life" - 3:50
  6. "Outta My Mind" - 2:11
  7. "Tom Skinner" - 2:30
  8. "You Ain't the Boss of Me" - 1:44
  9. "She Stalker" - 2:04
  10. "Shot Down" - 2:14
  11. "Cat Fight" - 1:17
  12. "Ghost" - 2:30
  13. "Hey Bartendress" - 2:28
  14. "Pony Up" - 2:24
  15. "Electricity" - 1:24
  16. "Crazy" - 2:11

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Category:1999 albums

Category:Bantam Rooster albums

Category:Crypt Records albums

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