Sundown (Rank and File album)

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Sundown
Warner Bros.
Slash
ProducerDavid Kahne
Rank and File chronology
Sundown
(1982)
Long Gone Dead
(1984)
Professional ratings
Review scores
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Sundown is the debut album by Los Angeles cowpunk band Rank and File, released in 1982 on Slash Records.

Critical reception

Critic

Village Voice's influential Pazz & Jop critics poll.[4]

Reissues

In 2003, Rhino Handmade, an imprint of Rhino Entertainment, compiled Sundown, the band's second album, Long Gone Dead, and bonus tracks on a CD entitled The Slash Years.

On its own, Sundown was reissued on CD in 2005 by Collectors' Choice Music.

Again on its own, Sundown was reissued on vinyl by Drastic Plastic Records in 2020.[5]

Track listing

All songs by Chip Kinman and Tony Kinman except as indicated.

Side one

  1. Amanda Ruth (3:10)
  2. (Glad I'm) Not In Love (2:29)
  3. Rank and File (Alejandro Escovedo, Kinman, Session, Miller) (4:52)
  4. The Conductor Wore Black (3:33)

Side two

  1. Sundown (3:04)
  2. I Went Walking (2:57)
  3. Lucky Day (3:42)
  4. I Don't Go Out Much Anymore (2:17)
  5. Coyote (5:05)

Personnel

  • Chip Kinman - guitar, vocals, harmonica
  • Tony Kinman - bass, vocals
  • Slim Evans - drums
  • Alejandro Escovedo - guitar, vocals

References