| The Notorious Cherry Bombs | |
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| Also known as | The Cherry Bombs |
| Origin | USA |
| Genres | Country |
| Years active | 1980–1988, 2003–2004 |
| Labels | Universal South |
| Associated acts | Emmylou Harris |
| Past members | |
| Eddie Bayers Richard Bennett Tony Brown Rodney Crowell Hank DeVito Vince Gill Emory Gordy, Jr. John Hobbs Larrie Londin Michael Rhodes |
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The Notorious Cherry Bombs, originally called The Cherry Bombs, was an American country music supergroup founded by singer-songwriter Rodney Crowell in 1980. A former member of Emmylou Harris's Hot Band, Crowell picked several former Hot Band members as his backing band, which he named The Cherry Bombs. They made their debut as Rodney's backing band on his 1980 album But What Will the Neighbors Think.[1]
Although they served as Crowell's backing band for several years, The Cherry Bombs did not record an album of their own until a 2004 reunion (at which point "Notorious" had been added to the band's name).[1] The album, also titled The Notorious Cherry Bombs, produced a hit on the country music charts in "It's Hard to Kiss the Lips at Night That Chew Your Ass Out All Day Long".
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The Cherry Bombs [link]
Rodney Crowell was a founding member of country singer Emmylou Harris's Hot Band; when he began his own solo career in the early 1980s, Crowell picked several former Hot Band members as his backing band, whom he named The Cherry Bombs. The initial members comprised Vince Gill (background vocals, electric guitar), Hank DeVito (steel guitar), Emory Gordy, Jr. (bass guitar), Richard Bennett (electric guitar), Tony Brown (keyboards), and Larrie Londin (drums).[1]
As The Cherry Bombs, the band backed both Crowell and Rosanne Cash, to whom Crowell was married at the time. After Crowell and Cash divorced, the band's members began leaving.[1] Gill began a solo career in country music in the late 1980s, while Brown became a record producer for MCA Records. Londin died from a heart attack in 1992.[1] Gordy married country singer Patty Loveless and served as her producer, while Bennett and DeVito found work as studio musicians.
Return as The Notorious Cherry Bombs [link]
In 2003, several of the former members of The Cherry Bombs, including Gill and Crowell, re-united. Emory Gordy, Jr. opted not to participate in the reunited group, which by then comprised Eddie Bayers (drums), Richard Bennett (electric guitar, bouzouki, cavaquinho), Hank DeVito (steel guitar, Dobro), John Hobbs (piano, keyboards), and Michael Rhodes (bass guitar), with Gill and Crowell alternating as lead singers. A year later, the band was signed to a record deal with Universal South Records to record their first album as an actual band. Due to legal concerns, the band was re-named The Notorious Cherry Bombs.[1][2] Their self-titled album produced a minor hit on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks charts that year in "It's Hard to Kiss the Lips at Night That Chew Your Ass Out All Day Long". This was followed by "Let It Roll, Let It Ride" which failed to chart. Also included on the album was "Making Memories of Us", which had previously been recorded by Tracy Byrd and would later become a Number One hit when Keith Urban released his own version in 2005. After the release of their second single, The Notorious Cherry Bombs disbanded again, and Crowell and Gill resumed their solo careers.
Discography [link]
Studio albums [link]
| Title | Album details | Peak chart positions | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US Country | US | US Heat |
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| The Notorious Cherry Bombs |
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23 | 135 | 4 |
Singles [link]
| Year | Single | Peak positions | Album |
|---|---|---|---|
| US Country | |||
| 2004 | "It's Hard to Kiss the Lips at Night That Chew Your Ass Out All Day Long" |
47 | The Notorious Cherry Bombs |
| 2005 | "Let It Roll, Let It Ride" | — | |
| "—" denotes releases that did not chart | |||
Music videos [link]
| Year | Video | Director |
|---|---|---|
| 2004 | "It's Hard to Kiss the Lips at Night That Chew Your Ass Out All Day Long" |
Eric Welch |
References [link]
- ^ a b c d e f Ankeny, Jason. "allmusic ((( The Notorious Cherry Bombs > Biography )))". Allmusic. https://www.allmusic.com/artist/p670028. Retrieved 2007-12-01.
- ^ Hill, Cheryl Harvey. "The Notorious Cherry Bombs - Self-titled Album review". Country Stars Online. https://www.countrystarsonline.com/CSO/SOWArchive/NotoriousCherryBombs.htm. Retrieved 2007-12-01.
External links [link]
https://wn.com/The_Notorious_Cherry_Bombs
Cherry bomb
A cherry bomb (also known as a globe salute, kraft salute or bangarang) is an approximately spherical exploding firework. Cherry bombs range in size from three-quarters of an inch to one and a half inches (1.9 cm to 3.8 cm) in diameter.
Composition
A typical cherry bomb contains a core of explosive composition (e.g., flash powder or, less commonly, black powder) which is generally encapsulated inside a paper cup, which is in turn most commonly surrounded by a layer (approx. one-quarter inch thick) of sawdust infused with a mild adhesive (usually sodium silicate). An ignition fuse is inserted into a hole drilled into the hardened sawdust sphere, all the way down to reach the explosive composition. The fuse extends outside the sphere approximately one to one and a half inches. Once the fuse is ignited, it takes about three to four and a half seconds to reach the explosive composition and initiate explosion of the firework.
The color of the salute's exterior varies, depending on the manufacturer and the time period during which the salute was produced. Early on, in the late-1920s and 1930s, globe salutes had fuses which were tan, red or striped and multi-colored, and their body color varied, ranging from brown and tan to silver and red, and some were even decorated with multi-colored confetti. However, by the 1940s the most common color of the spherical salutes being marketed was a deep pink to red, with a green fuse, which is when the names cherry salute and cherry bomb entered popular use.
