Buster's Spanish Rocketship

{{Use mdy dates|date=May 2025}} {{Infobox album | name = Buster's Spanish Rocketship | type = Studio album | artist = Buster Poindexter | cover = Buster's Spanish Rocketship.jpg | alt = | released = 1997 | recorded = 1995–1997 | venue = | studio = | genre = {{Flatlist| * Salsa * merengue}} | length = 52:57 | label = PolyGram<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YRsxDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA91|title=The Encyclopedia of the Harmonica|first=Peter|last=Krampert|date=March 23, 2016|publisher=Mel Bay Publications|isbn=978-1-61911-577-4}}</ref> | producer = Brian Koonin | prev_title = Buster's Happy Hour | prev_year = 1994 | next_title = David Johansen and the Harry Smiths | next_year = 2000 }} '''''Buster's Spanish Rocketship''''' is an album by Buster Poindexter, the alter ego of singer David Johansen.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://washingtoncitypaper.com/article/279766/busters-spanish-rocket-ship/|title=Buster's Spanish Rocket Ship|date=January 9, 1998|newspaper=Washington City Paper}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Makin |first1=Robert |title=David Johansen returns with a Latin twist |work=USA Today |date=January 25, 1998 |page=ARC}}</ref> Following ''...Rocketship'', Johansen returned to recording albums under his real name.

The album was named after Buster's new backing band.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Catlin |first1=Roger |title=Buster Poindexter at Mohegan |work=Hartford Courant |date=October 22, 1998 |department=CAL |page=19}}</ref>

==Critical reception== {{Music ratings | rev1 = AllMusic | rev1Score = {{Rating|2.5|5}}<ref name="auto">{{Cite web|url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/busters-spanish-rocketship-mw0000025763|title=Buster's Spanish Rocketship Buster Poindexter|website=AllMusic}}</ref> |rev2 = Robert Christgau |rev2score = {{Rating-Christgau|hm3}}<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.robertchristgau.com/get_artist.php?id=210&name=Buster+Poindexter|title=Buster Poindexter|website=Robert Christgau}}</ref> }} The ''Sun-Sentinel'' wrote: "Turning his slightly jaded eye toward salsa, merengue and the most broken Spanish ever spoken, Buster brings on the bongos and dancing girls."<ref name=SunSentinel>{{cite news |last1=Schulman |first1=Sandra |title=POINDEXTER A MERENGUE CABALLERO |work=Sun-Sentinel |date=11 Nov 1997 |page=3E}}</ref> ''Tulsa World'' thought that "his voice is giving out, but his spicy reverie will always flip skirts up."<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://tulsaworld.com/archive/reviews-of-recently-released-cds/article_ef04f9fa-f307-5737-a615-e5f1fe363e16.html|title=Reviews of Recently Released CDs|newspaper=Tulsa World|date=17 April 1998 }}</ref>

AllMusic wrote that "the Latin-tinged ''Buster's Spanish Rocketship'' is a minor triumph, demonstrating that David Johansen has an ear for material and a self-deprecating sense of humor that keeps Poindexter enjoyable."<ref name="auto"/>

==Track listing== All tracks composed by David Johansen. # "Ondine" – 2:55 # "Nueva Broadway (They Don't Smoke)" – 4:18 # "Downtown Dream" – 4:10 # "Inez (Is Just a Big Rage Queen)" – 4:13 # "The Closer I Get to Heaven" – 4:15 # "My First Sin" – 4:28 # "Let's Take It Easy" – 3:43 # "Linda Lee" – 3:41 # "Iris Chacon" – 3:43 # "Skin & Bones" – 3:36 # "Mean Spirited Sal" – 4:17 # "Lay Down" – 3:42 # "Rhumba (Dance Fever)" – 5:56

==Personnel== *Buster Poindexter – vocals '''The Banshees of Blue''' *Soozie Tyrell – vocals *Richard Barone – vocals *Brian Koonin – guitar, cuatro *Jack Bashkow – saxophone, piccolo *Kenny Fradley – trumpet *Byron Stripling – trumpet *Mark Pender – trumpet *Conrad Herwig – trombone *Jimmy Bosch – trombone *Randy Andos – bass trombone *Charlie Giordano – accordion, piano *Andy Gonzales – bass *Brian Hamm – bass *Tony Machine – drums *Fred Walcott – percussion *Ismael "Bongo" Bruno – percussion *Mike Jacobson – percussion

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Category:1997 albums Category:Buster Poindexter albums Category:PolyGram albums