The Salamanders "Livestock In The Living Room" 1992

Pre-Hi-Risers, good hit rate......The Salamanders developed a sizable local following and even had the opportunity to play with some members of James Brown's great '60s band. They released a debut full-length, Livestock in the Living Room, in 1992 on After Hours before ultimately dissolving in 1997 when a couple of members quit and Townson went off to tour Europe with soul singer John Ellison. Earl (playing the spoons!) and Bradley teamed up in the more-hillbilly-than-rock duo the Rosey Beats over the next year or so, and they released the six-song cassette-only EP Life Is Rosey on Rocket Racket Records, a label that Earl had originally started in 1989 to release the first Squires of the Subterrain cassette, Shell Beach. In 1998 Townson returned and the trio reformed as rootsy rock & roll trio the Hi-Risers (an album, Panic!, was later released on Rocket Racket)… ~ Stanton Swiharttrax:

01 Miss Vera Lee 02 Grade Point Average Disease 03 Wild Romance 04 Shutterbug 05 Full Down The Shade 06 My House Is Your House 07 Shell Beach 08 Todd Made Us Late 09 The Silver Saddle Motel 10 They Won't Let Me Into The Country 11 I Can't Picture Myself 12 Coyote Rock 13 Ten More Lonely Nights 14 Who Had To Go And Call The Law