Tango (Patty Larkin album)

Tango
Studio album by Patty Larkin
Released	1991
Genre	Folk rock
Length	46 minutes
Label	High Street Records
Producer	Will Ackerman and Patty Larkin
Patty Larkin chronology
Live in the Square (1990) Tango (1991) Angels Running (1993)

Tango is the fourth album by singer-songwriter Patty Larkin, and her first on High Street Records. Produced by Larkin and Will Ackerman in 1991 and distributed by High Street, it contained the following songs:^[1]

Track listing

1. "Tango"
2. "Used To Be"
3. "Upside Down"
4. "Time Was"
5. "Solo Flight"
6. "Dave's Holiday"
7. "Chained to These Lovin' Arms"
8. "Metal Drums"
9. "Letter from Vancouver"
10. "Deadlines and Dollar Signs"
11. "Waiting for the Dawn"
12. "Kathleen"
13. "Tango Reprise"

All songs were written by Patty Larkin.

Album personnel

• Patty Larkin - vocals, acoustic guitar
• Michael Manring- (fretless bass, e bow bass
• Brian MacLeod - drums, percussion
• Richard Gates - bass
• Lyle Workman - electric guitar
• Mike Marshall - mandolin
• Darol Anger - violin
• Josef Brinckmann - accordion
• John Gorka - backup vocals on "Dave's Holiday", "Chained to These Lovin' Arms"

"Metal Drums", environmental protest song

The song "Metal Drums" in the album is about the toxic waste tragedy that affected residents living near Baird and McGuire chemical plant in Holbrook Massachusetts that was later closed and turned into a Superfund site.^[2] The song became popular in the environmental movement, especially in New England.^[3]

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