Choo Choo Hot Fish by The Stray Cats

Choo Choo Hot Fish, the Stray Cats' seventh album, came out in 1992 and took its name from a soul food fish joint, long since demolished, at Market and Main in Chattanooga, Tennessee, near today's Chattanooga Choo-Choo Hotel. Brian Setzer, Lee Rocker and Slim Jim Phantom had begun it with Nile Rodgers, then went back to Dave Edmunds to get their familiar sound, though electronic drums and bass creep onto a few tracks.

"Elvis on Velvet" led the way as the first single. Elsewhere there's the instrumental "Jade Idol", a Randy Bachman tune in "Can't Go Back to Memphis" and a cover of Santo & Johnny's "Sleepwalk". Critics split: the Calgary Herald wondered what exactly was being revived, while the Vancouver Sun cheered the passion and hopped-up pace. Either way, the band took it on the road across North America.

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