Rank and File (album)
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| Released | 1987 | |||
| Genre | Hard rock | |||
| Label | Rhino | |||
| Producer | Bill Pfordresher | |||
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Rank and File is an album by the American band Rank and File, released in 1987.[1][2] The band supported the album with a North American tour.[3] The first single was "Black Book".[4] Rank and File was the band's final album, with the Kinman brothers forming a new band, Blackbird, before the end of the year.[5]
The album was produced by Bill Pfordresher.[6] The band chose to shift from a country-influenced sound to a more hard rock style, in part due to years of playing live.[7][4] After having an album rejected by Warner Bros. (which Van Dyke Parks almost produced), the band recorded demos for many record companies before signing to Rhino Records.[8][9][10] Most of the album's songs were written and worked out during tours; many are about the concerns of urban blue collar workers.[11][12] "Pistol Dawn" is about apartheid in South Africa.[4] "Good Times" employs synthesized strings.[13]
