Damn Yankees was the eponymous debut album by Damn Yankees

Damn Yankees (band)

Damn Yankees was an American hard rock supergroup.-History:The band was formed in 1989, consisting of Tommy Shaw of Styx, Jack Blades of Night Ranger, Ted Nugent of The Amboy Dukes and a successful solo career, and Michael Cartellone...

. It is also notable for being the album that revived the popular career of guitarist Ted Nugent

Ted Nugent

Theodore Anthony "Ted" Nugent is an American guitarist, musician, singer, author, reserve police officer, and activist. From Detroit, Michigan, he originally gained fame as the lead guitarist of The Amboy Dukes, before embarking on a lengthy solo career...

. It went double platinum, and featured such chart topping hits as "High Enough

High Enough

"High Enough" is a song by American supergroup Damn Yankees from their self titled debut album.It is their most successful single in terms of chart position and sales, rising to #3 on the U.S. Pop chart, the group's first top-ten pop single. It also reached #2 on the U.S. Album Rock Tracks chart....

", "Damn Yankees", and "Coming of Age".

Track listing

All songs written by Jack Blades

Jack Blades

Jack Martin Blades is an American musician. He has worked in several bands: Rubicon, Night Ranger , and Damn Yankees . He also recorded with Tommy Shaw under the name Shaw/Blades, and has done work alongside TMG, the Tak Matsumoto Group...

/Ted Nugent

Ted Nugent

Theodore Anthony "Ted" Nugent is an American guitarist, musician, singer, author, reserve police officer, and activist. From Detroit, Michigan, he originally gained fame as the lead guitarist of The Amboy Dukes, before embarking on a lengthy solo career...

/Tommy Shaw

Tommy Shaw

Tommy Roland Shaw is an American guitarist, best known for his work with the rock band Styx. In between his stints with Styx, he has played with the supergroup Damn Yankees and Shaw Blades, and has released several solo albums....

.

1. "Coming of Age" – 4:21
2. "Bad Reputation" – 4:29
3. "Runaway" – 4:02
4. "High Enough
   High Enough
   "High Enough" is a song by American supergroup Damn Yankees from their self titled debut album.It is their most successful single in terms of chart position and sales, rising to #3 on the U.S. Pop chart, the group's first top-ten pop single. It also reached #2 on the U.S. Album Rock Tracks chart....
   
   " – 4:43
5. "Damn Yankees" – 4:37
6. "Come Again" – 5:38
7. "Mystified" – 4:14
8. "Rock City" – 4:28
9. "Tell Me How You Want It" – 4:32
10. "Piledriver" – 4:18

Personnel

• Tommy Shaw
  Tommy Shaw
  Tommy Roland Shaw is an American guitarist, best known for his work with the rock band Styx. In between his stints with Styx, he has played with the supergroup Damn Yankees and Shaw Blades, and has released several solo albums....
  
   – guitar
  Guitar
  The guitar is a plucked string instrument, usually played with fingers or a pick. The guitar consists of a body with a rigid neck to which the strings, generally six in number, are attached. Guitars are traditionally constructed of various woods and strung with animal gut or, more recently, with...
  
  s and vocals
  Singing
  Singing is the act of producing musical sounds with the voice, and augments regular speech by the use of both tonality and rhythm. One who sings is called a singer or vocalist. Singers perform music known as songs that can be sung either with or without accompaniment by musical instruments...
  
  
• Ted Nugent
  Ted Nugent
  Theodore Anthony "Ted" Nugent is an American guitarist, musician, singer, author, reserve police officer, and activist. From Detroit, Michigan, he originally gained fame as the lead guitarist of The Amboy Dukes, before embarking on a lengthy solo career...
  
   – guitars and vocals
• Jack Blades
  Jack Blades
  Jack Martin Blades is an American musician. He has worked in several bands: Rubicon, Night Ranger , and Damn Yankees . He also recorded with Tommy Shaw under the name Shaw/Blades, and has done work alongside TMG, the Tak Matsumoto Group...
  
   – bass guitar
  Bass guitar
  The bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....
  
   and vocals
• Michael Cartellone
  Michael Cartellone
  Michael Cartellone born in 1962 is the current drummer of Lynyrd Skynyrd , and the former drummer of Damn Yankees and Accept . He is also an accomplished painter, having done so for many years. Before joining Damn Yankees, Tommy Shaw, both of Styx and Damn Yankees, recalled Michael painting...
  
   – drums
  Drum kit
  A drum kit is a collection of drums, cymbals and often other percussion instruments, such as cowbells, wood blocks, triangles, chimes, or tambourines, arranged for convenient playing by a single person ....
  
  

Additional personnel

• Danny Cahn - trumpet
  Trumpet
  The trumpet is the musical instrument with the highest register in the brass family. Trumpets are among the oldest musical instruments, dating back to at least 1500 BCE. They are played by blowing air through closed lips, producing a "buzzing" sound which starts a standing wave vibration in the air...
  
  
• Sarah Carter - cello
• Richard Centalonza - reeds
• Katharine Easter - French horn
• Lawrence Feldman - reeds
• Ian Finkle - percussion
• Steve Guttman - trumpet
• Clfton Hardison - percussion
• Steve Freeman - keyboards
• B.J. Ingram - violin
• Dale Kirkland - trombone
  Trombone
  The trombone is a musical instrument in the brass family. Like all brass instruments, sound is produced when the player’s vibrating lips cause the air column inside the instrument to vibrate...
  
  
• Jesse Levy - cello
• Ray Marchica - drums
• Charles McCracken - cello
• William Meade - reeds
• Neverleave Brothers - backing vocals
• David Niwa - violin
• Keith O'Quinn - trombone
• Alan Pasqua - hammond organ
• Marion Pinhiero - violin
• Ron Raffio - bass
• Roger Rosenberg - reeds
• Jack Schatz - trombone
• Marti Sweet - violin
• Gerlad Tarack - violin
• Nancy Wolfe - reeds
• Ann Yarbrough - french horn

Production

• Ron Nevison
  Ron Nevison
  Multi-platinum record producer Ron Nevison, throughout his career, has operated much like a surgeon, brought in during a critical point in a band's career to bring them back to the top from the commercial brink...
  
   - producer, engineer
• Tommy Shepard - producer
• John Aguto - assistant engineer
• Ed Goodreau - assistant engineer
• Bill Kennedy - assistant engineer
• James Nichols - engineer
• Jeff Poe - assistant engineer
• Toby Wright
  Toby Wright
  Toby Wright is a record producer and mixing engineer who has worked with artists such as Alice in Chains, Metallica, Sevendust and Korn. He is currently in Nashville, Tennessee working on Kara Clark's latest Ep.-Producer:...
  
   - assistant engineer

Chart positions

Album - Billboard (North America)

Year	Chart	Position
1990	The Billboard 200	13

Singles - Billboard (North America)

Year	Single	Chart	Position
1990	"Come Again"	Mainstream Rock Tracks	5
	"Coming of Age"	Mainstream Rock Tracks	1
		The Billboard Hot 100	60
	"High Enough"	Mainstream Rock Tracks	2
		The Billboard Hot 100	3
	"Runaway"	Mainstream Rock Tracks	9
1991	"Bad Reputation"	Mainstream Rock Tracks	31
	"Come Again"	The Billboard Hot 100	50

External links

• Heavy Harmonies page