Album Notes

Johnette Napolitano (lead singer/writer/bassist for the acclaimed L.A. band Concrete Blonde) and Buzz Gamble (local legend/ex con/dirty white blues singer)
both residents of the Mojave desert and who both currently owe on their bartabs at the local roadhouse, Pappy & Harriet's Pioneertown Palace, duet on the Rick Derringer/Johnny Winter blues-rock classic 'Cheap Tequila'. Johnette's haunting vocals and Buzz' booze-ravaged gravelly growl are a perfect, if unexpected, match.
With Concrete Blonde's Jim Mankey on bass and ace local musicians Steve Gardner on drums and Doug Anderson on guitar and organ, the coming together of these two desert dwellers as well as the recent celebration of the music of late 70's local legend Gram Parsons and talented
young desert debutantes Gram Rabbit may mean the Mojave is a place to watch for a new wave of American music and art.

Recorded at the well known Joshua Tree studio Rancho de la Luna, Johnette & Buzz drink,learn the words, drink, sing about pains and heartaches and worn out dreams and washed up schemes and

"drink up and be happy'
live just for today
drown in cheap tequila
and flush youself away"


...somebody get me a lime.


Judy Wishart & Johnette Napolitano