Lucky Eye
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| Lucky Eye | ||||
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| Released | October 6, 1998 | |||
| Studio | Muscle Shoals | |||
| Genre | Rock and roll | |||
| Label | Outpost | |||
| Producer | Scott Litt, Chris Stamey | |||
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Lucky Eye is an album by the American band Flat Duo Jets, released on October 6, 1998.[1][2] It was the band's first album for a major label. They supported it with a North American tour that included Reverend Horton Heat and the Amazing Crowns and with an appearance on NPR's World Cafe.[3][4]
Recorded at Muscle Shoals Sound Studio, the album was produced by label head Scott Litt and Chris Stamey; Peter Buck had encouraged Litt to sign and work with the band.[1] Stamey also cowrote three of the songs and played bass on most of the tracks.[5][6] Tom Maxwell and Ken Mosher of the Squirrel Nut Zippers contributed on horns.[7] The band used a 12-piece string section on several tracks.[1] Flat Duo Jets had written most of the songs prior to the recording sessions and had to adapt to the extra instrumentation.[4] "New York Studio 1959" refers to frontman Dexter Romweber's opinion that 1959 was the year that many musicians expanded the scope of their music by exploring the possibilities of the recording studio.[8] Chris "Crow" Smith's drum solo on "Rockin' Mode" is a tribute to Gene Krupa.[9] "Virginia Surf" and "Creepin' Invention" are instrumentals.[10] "Sharks Flying In" is a tale about Romweber's girlfriend being snatched by sharks from outer space.[11]
