Witchdoctor (album)
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| Witchdoctor | ||||
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| Released | 1989 | |||
| Genre | Rock, indie pop | |||
| Label | Mammoth/RCA | |||
| Producer | Rich Hopkins, Dave Slutes | |||
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Witchdoctor is an album by the American band Sidewinders, released in 1989.[1][2] It peaked at No. 169 on the Billboard 200, the first Mammoth Records album to make the chart.[3][4] The title track peaked at No. 18 on Billboard's Modern Rock Tracks chart.[5] Witchdoctor had sold around 75,000 copies by the end of the 1990s.[6] The band supported the album by touring with Charlie Sexton and then Johnny Thunders.[7][8] Shortly after the release of the album, Sidewinders were sued by a similarly named band and subsequently changed their name to Sand Rubies.[9]
The album was produced by bandmembers Rich Hopkins and Dave Slutes, who also wrote most of the songs.[10][11] Sidewinders began the album with Andrea Curtis on drums and vocals; when she became pregnant, Diane Padilla was brought in to finish the tracks.[12] Curtis, who sang lead on "Love '88", later divorced Hopkins.[13][8] "Solitary Man" is a cover of the Neil Diamond song.[14] "Bad, Crazy Sun" is about immigrants dying in the desert while attempting a border crossing.[15] "What She Said" is about the end of a relationship.[16]
