Boggy Depot

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Boggy Depot
Boggy Depot cover
Studio album by Jerry Cantrell
Released March 31, 1998 (Vinyl record)
April 7, 1998 (CD)
Recorded April - November 1997 at Studio D in Sausalito, California and Studio X in Index, Washington
Genre Grunge
Length 62:34
Label Columbia Records
Producer Jerry Cantrell,
Toby Wright
Professional reviews
Jerry Cantrell chronology
Boggy Depot
(1998)		 Degradation Trip
(2002)
For the actual Boggy Depot, see Boggy Depot, Oklahoma.

Boggy Depot is the debut solo album by Alice in Chains guitarist Jerry Cantrell. It was released on April 7, 1998 (see 1998 in music) through Columbia Records.

"Cut You In" served as the album's first single and video which charted well and remained one of the album's best known songs. The song is unusual for Cantrell's style considering its use of horns. It was the #1 most added track at Rock and Alternative radio with more than 1,000 spins and an audience of more than nine million in its first five days. The second single, "My Song" was on Billboard's Mainstream Rock Tracks chart for over a dozen weeks. Its controversial music video was directed by Rocky Schenck and features performance artist Ann Magnuson.

Boggy Depot also incorporates piano, organ, and country elements, namely in the tracks "Hurt a Long Time" and "Between." However, the ominous guitar styles previously heard in Alice In Chains are undeniable in tracks like "Jesus Hands" and "Keep the Light On." Indeed, many fans consider Boggy Depot the "lost" Alice In Chains album because it has all three members of the group with the exception of Layne Staley. Fans believe this would have truly been such an album if Staley wasn't sick due to his heroin addiction at the time and if Cantrell wouldn't have taken a more "pop" direction. The tracks "Settling Down" and "Hurt a Long Time" were also introduced during the recording sessions for Alice in Chains' self-titled album in 1995, but the group choose not to record them. As such, they were the oldest and long-awaited songs to be on Boggy Depot.[1]

Cantrell began touring for the album with Days of the New and headlining act Metallica on their Poor Re-Touring Me Tour. This was followed his first solo tour starting October 1 that same year.[2] Band mates included Chris DeGarmo, formerly of Queensrÿche, Nick Rhinehart of Old Lady Litterbug, and Sean Kinney of Alice in Chains. Despite Cantrell's uneasiness towards performing as frontman, concerts were quickly met with praise by critics from the Los Angeles Times, Variety, and other major publications.[3]

Four well-known bassists contributed to the album: Rex Brown (of Pantera), Mike Inez (of Alice in Chains), John Norwood Fisher (of Fishbone) and Les Claypool (of Primus).

Contents

[edit] Track listing

  1. "Dickeye" – 5:07
  2. "Cut You In" – 3:23
  3. "My Song" – 4:07
  4. "Settling Down" – 6:12
  5. "Breaks My Back" – 7:07
  6. "Jesus Hands" – 5:37
  7. "Devil by His Side" – 4:50
  8. "Keep the Light on" – 4:49
  9. "Satisfy" – 3:35
  10. "Hurt a Long Time" – 5:41
  11. "Between" – 3:37
  12. "Cold Piece" – 8:29

[edit] Personnel

[edit] Charts

Album - Billboard (North America)

Year Chart Position
1998 Billboard Top 200 28

Singles - Billboard (North America)

Year Single Chart Position
1998 "Cut You In" Mainstream Rock Tracks 5
1998 "Cut You In" Modern Rock Tracks 15
1998 "Dickeye" Mainstream Rock Tracks 36
1998 "My Song" Mainstream Rock Tracks 6

[edit] References

  1. ^ Hughes, Kim "Live in Toronto" Interview on 102.1 The Edge Jerry Depot (February 4, 1998). Retrieved March 24, 2008.
  2. ^ News - October 10, 1998 Jerry Depot (October 10, 1998). Retrieved March 24, 2008.
  3. ^ "Jerry Cantrell to Headline Solo Tour" Business Wire (October 1, 1998). Retrieved March 24, 2008.