The Tractors (album)

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The Tractors
The Tractors cover
Studio album by The Tractors
Released 1994
Genre Country
Label Arista
Producer Steve Ripley, Walt Richmond
The Tractors chronology
The Tractors
(1994)		 Have Yourself a Tractors Christmas
(1995)

The Tractors is the eponymous debut album of American country music band The Tractors. Released in late 1994 on Arista Records, it set a record for becoming the fastest-selling debut album by a group to achieve RIAA platinum certification in the United States; by the end of the year, it was certified 2× multi-platinum, and became the highest-selling country album of 1994.[1] The tracks "Baby Likes to Rock It" and "Tryin' to Get to New Orleans" were both released as singles.

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[edit] Recording the album

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Steve Ripley, The Tractors' lead vocalist and guitarist, co-produced the album along with keyboardist/bass vocalist Walt Richmond.[2] According to Ripley, several techniques were used to make the album sound as if it had been recorded in one take - most notably, the use of Pro Tools to cut and paste the individual parts of the song:

“ On a couple of these songs, I... just had a basic idea of the song and didn't really know how the song was going to go, so I played... all the elements that might be a part of this song several times in no particular order until the tape ran off, so I ended up with a 14-minute guitar part. I got to go free-form and experience it like it was the first time I heard it, too, and I dumped that into Pro Tools and went back and cut them together, sort of finishing the writing of the song after I had played.[1] ”

[edit] Track listing

  1. "The Tulsa Shuffle" (Steve Ripley) – 3:54
  2. "Fallin' Apart" (Ripley, Ron Getman) – 3:47
    • Ed Richmond – fiddle
  3. "Thirty Days" (Chuck Berry) – 2:45
    • John Crowder – background vocals
    • Debbie Campbell – background vocals
    • Joe Davis – saxophones
    • Ron Morgan – upright bass on intro
    • Jim Sweney – background vocals
  4. "I've Had Enough" (Ripley) – 3:10
    • Steve Collier – second steel guitar solo
    • Gene Crownaver – third steel guitar solo
    • Curly Lewis – fiddle
    • Waddy Pass – first steel guitar solo
  5. "The Little Man" (Jim Pulk, Ripley, Tim DuBois) – 5:46
    • Rick Morton – fiddle
    • Jim Pulte – bass vocals
    • Bonnie Raitt – slide guitar (recorded at Sun Studio)
    • Angelene Ripley – Hammond B–3 organ
    • Elvis Ripley – tremolo guitar
  6. "Baby Likes to Rock It" (Ripley, Walt Richmond) – 3:56
  7. "Badly Bent" (Martha Ellis, Ripley, Richmond) – 3:02
    • Steve Bagsby – steel guitar
    • Curly Lewis – fiddle
  8. "The Blue Collar Rock" (Ripley) – 4:34
    • Ry Cooder – slide guitar
    • Jim Keltner – extra drums
  9. "Doreen" (Ripley) – 2:29
    • Eldon Shamblin – guitar
  10. "Settin' the Woods on Fire" (Fred Rose, Ed G. Nelson) – 2:55
  11. "Tryin' to Get to New Orleans" (Ripley, Richmond, DuBois) – 4:40
    • Joe Davis – extra horns
  12. "The Tulsa Shuffle (Revisited)" (Ripley) – 6:11
    • Steve Allen – guitar
    • Rick Beilke – guitar
    • Bill Belknap – drums
    • Larry Bell – Hammond B–3 organ
    • Rich Brown – drums
    • Mike Bruce – guitar
    • Mark Bruner – guitar
    • Jim Byfield – guitar
    • J. J. Cale – guitar
    • Robert Coggins – guitar
    • John Crowder – guitar
    • Gary Cundiff – guitar
    • Chuck DeWalt – drums
    • Jim Edwards – guitar
    • Richard Feldman – guitar
    • Huey Flannery – guitar
    • Ron Flynt – guitar
    • Michael Garrett – guitar
    • Gary Gilmore – guitar
    • Stacey Grant – trombone
    • Doc James – guitar
    • Jim Keltner – guitar
    • Roger Linn – guitar
    • Steve Pryor – guitar
    • Dan Mayo – "life observations and noises"
    • Glen Mitchell – Hammond B–3 organ
    • Ron Morgan – bass guitar licks
    • Rick Morton – fiddle
    • Carl Pickhardt – Hammond B–3 organ
    • Steve Pryor – guitar
    • Jim Pulte – guitar
    • Bonnie Raitt – slide guitar
    • Ed Richmond – fiddle
    • Ed Robinson – Hammond B–3 organ
    • Angelene Ripley – Hammond B–3 organ
    • Charlene Ripley – trumpet
    • Elvis Ripley – tremolo guitar, dive bomb guitar
    • Leon Russell – MIDI programming
    • Pat "Taco" Ryan – saxophone
    • Emily Smith – tambourine
    • Dick Sims – Hammond B–3 organ
    • Gordon Shryock – guitar
    • "Skee" – guitar
    • Jim Strader – bass guitar licks
    • Spencer Sutton – piano
    • Roger Tillison – guitar
    • Don White – guitar
    • Junior Markham & the Tulsa All Stars:
    • Chuck Blackwell – drums
    • Chuck Browning – drums
    • Steve Hickerson – guitar
    • Jimmy Karstein – drums
    • Jimmy "Junior" Markham – harmonica
    • David Teegarden – drums
    • Tommy Tripplehorn – guitar

[edit] Personnel (all tracks)

[edit] The Tractors

  • Ron Getman – electric guitar, acoustic guitar, slide guitar, steel guitar, Dobro, mandolin, tenor vocals, engineer
  • Jamie Oldaker – drums, "groove snares", tambourine, percussion
  • Walt Richmond – piano, Hammond B–3 organ, accordion, Wurlitzer, clavinet, drums, horns, bass vocals, producer, engineer, photography
  • Steve Ripley – guitars, drums, lead vocals, producer, engineer, design, original art
  • Casey Van Beek – bass guitar, baritone vocals

[edit] Additional production and engineering

  • Allen Brown - management
  • Don Cobb - digital editing
  • Maude Gilman - art direction
  • Carlos Grier - digital editing
  • Señor McGuire - photography
  • Denny Purcell - mastering
  • Angelene Ripley - engineer
  • Elvis Ripley - engineer

[edit] References

  1. ^ a b Flans, Robyn (1999-03-01). The Tractors: A Fresh Breeze from Tulsa. MIX: Professional Audio & Music Production. Retrieved on 2008-01-01.
  2. ^ Album's liner notes

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