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Gamblin' Days Are Over Bass – Fields Trimble Drums – Rod Thomas (4) Organ Electric – Jack Yarber Piano – Phillip Tubb Violin, Percussion Strange – Greg Easterly Vocals, Guitar – Greg Cartwright.

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Gambling Days Are Over

Studio album by

Released

August 11, 1995

Recorded

1991 – February 1993

Genre

Garage rock

Length

60:15

Label

Sympathy for the Record Industry

Producer

Doug Easley, Davis McCain

Compulsive Gamblers chronology

Gambling Days Are Over
(1995)

Bluff City
(1999)

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Gambling Days Are Over is the debut album by the Compulsive Gamblers. It was released in 1995 by Sympathy for the Record Industry. The album, with the exception of the last three songs, was recorded on an 8-track recorder in vocalist Jack Oblivian's apartment. [1] The album was released after the band had already broken up, and was essentially a collection of the groups three 7-inch releases, 'Church Goin',' 'Joker,' and Goodtime Gamblers.' During the recording of the album the Compulsive Gamblers lineup consisted of Jack Oblivian and Greg Oblivian on guitar and vocals, Bushrod Thomas on drums, Fields Trimble on bass, and Greg Easterly on violin. [2] The first three songs on the album are cover songs reflecting the band's diverse influences; the album contains covers by The Tornados, the Bar-Kays, and Tom Waits. The song 'Sour and Vicious Man' was covered by Jay Reatard of the Reatards on their third album, 'Not Fucked Enough.'

Track listing[edit]

'Telstar' (Meek) – 2:26
'Bad Taste' (Bar-Kays, Kays) – 3:32
'Way Down in the Hole' (Waits) – 3:01
'Dead Waltz (Cartwright) – 2:52
'Sour and Vicious Man' (Cartwright) – 2:24
'Two Wrongs Don't Make a Right' (Cartwright) – 3:04
'Walking the Balustrade' (Yarber) – 2:43
'Scaring Myself' (Yarber) – 3:03
'Capone's Finest' (Cartwright) – 2:29
'They'll Name a Drink After You' (Yarber) – 3:36
'Quit This Town' (Yarber) – 5:39
'They Call Me Names' (Yarber) – 3:24
'Phoney Lesbians' (Cartwright) – 2:21
'Gamblin' Days Are Over' (Cartwright) – 3:26
'I See You Everywhere' (Cartwright) – 4:09
'Handful of Burning Sand' (Cartwright) – 2:49
'Devil in My Back Pocket' (Cartwright) – 2:23
'Feel Good Music' (Yarber) – 4:10
'Good Time' (Cartwright) – 2:50
'My Mind Is in the Gutter' (Yarber) – 3:16 [3]

Personnel[edit]

The Compulsive Gamblers – Main Performer
Greg Cartwright – Organ, Vocals, Guitar, Piano
Jack Yarber – Organ, Vocals, Guitar, Guitar (Rhythm), Saxophone
Lorette Velvette – Piano, Slide Guitar
Jeff Harris – Bass
Rodney Thomas – Drums
Davis McCain – Engineer
Doug Easley – Engineer [4]

References[edit]

Carlson, Dean. Gambling Days are Over 'www.allmusic.com'. Accessed July 7, 2007.
Tupica, Rich. Jack Oblivian Interview 'turn-it-down.blogspot.com'. June 01, 2007. Accessed June 28, 2007.
The Compulsive Gamblers : Gambling Days Are Over 'www.artistdirect.com'. 1997–2007 ARTISTdirect, Inc. Accessed July 7, 2007.
Evert. The Compulsive Gamblers 'www.grunnenrocks.com'. Accessed June 23, 2007.

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Origin	Memphis, Tennessee, United States
Genres	Garage rock, punk blues, garage punk
Years active	1990—1993, 1998—2003
Labels	Boiler Room, Lemon Peel Records, Sympathy for the Record Industry
Associated acts	Oblivians, Greg Oblivian & The Tip Tops, Reigning Sound, '68 Comeback, Tennessee Tearjerkers
Members	Greg Cartwright Jack Yarber Rod Thomas Jeff Meier Brenden Lee Spengler
Past members	Philip Tubb Greg Easterly Paul Blanda

Compulsive Gamblers were an American garage rock group formed in Memphis, Tennessee, United States, in 1990 by Greg Cartwright and Jack Yarber, both future members of the Oblivians.^[1]

1History
3Discography

History[edit]

First incarnation[edit]

Originally known as 'The Painkillers', the band was founded in 1990 by future Oblivians frontmen Greg Cartwright and Jack Yarber, both of whom shared vocal and guitar duties. With the addition of bassist Fields Trimble, keyboardist Philip 'Flipper' Tubb, drummer Rod 'Bushrod' Thomas, and fiddler Greg Easterly, the band soon adopted the name the 'Compulsive Gamblers', and set to work recording their first 7-inch, Joker. The album was released a year later, and was followed by two further 7-inch recordings, Church Goin' and Goodtime Gamblers. According to Cartwright, one of the themes of the Church Goin' 7-inch, and of the Compulsive Gamblers in general, was 'the self destructive gambler, these people who just can't fix their lives and just fuck up at every turn. They need to do something. So that was the idea for 'Church Goin', but it wasn't fully realized...' [1]

The band struggled through 1990 and 1991 without any major gigs or a set band, but by the following year the band's fortunes had started to turn. By 1992 the band had a concrete lineup and had begun to form a unique sound, however, just as the Gamblers luck seemed to be looking up the band began to drift apart.

In 1993 Cartwright was offered a place to stay and record in New York with singer Casey Scott, which for a time he accepted. Cartwright played guitar on Casey Scott's 'Creep City' album that was released on Capitol Records in 1993. Around this time the other members of the band began to venture off on their own as well, leaving only Yarber and Easterly to try to keep the band afloat. Upon Cartwright's return to Memphis in the summer of 1993, he and Yarber decided to split their time between the Gamblers and a side project called the Oblivians. [2] By 1995, Thomas and Easterly had relocated to New Orleans, and Cartwright and Yarber focused their creative efforts solely on the Oblivians, resulting in the ultimate breakup of the first incarnation of the Gamblers.

Label interest for the Compulsive Gamblers had always been fleeting, and the band was unable to garner much interest while the band was still together. As Yarber explained, the Compulsive Gamblers “did two 7-inches and recorded a bunch of songs on home recordings. We recorded in Easley (Recording studio), but we never really had an album...our CD came out after The Oblivians started playing.” [3] Eventually their 7' recordings were compiled in LP format under the title Gambling Days are Over and released by Sympathy for the Record Industry. [4]

Second incarnation[edit]

After the breakup of the Oblivians, Cartwright and Yarber reformed the Compulsive Gamblers, this time as a three-piece with Rod Thomas back on drums. With this lineup they released the album Bluff City in 1999. Bassist Jeff Meier and keyboardist Brendan Lee Spengler were added to the lineup following a European tour, and in this incarnation the band released the studio album Crystal Gazing Luck Amazing and the live album Live & Deadly: Memphis-Chicago, their final release before again disbanding. [5]

Line ups[edit]

Compulsive Gamblers I: (1991–1993, first three singles and 'Gambling Days Are Over')

Jack Yarber: guitar, vocals

Greg Cartwright: guitar, vocals

Bushrod Thomas: drums

Fields Trimble: bass

Greg Easterly: violin

Compulsive Gamblers II:(after The Oblivians broke up, 1998, Bluff City LP/CD)

Jack Yarber: guitar, vocals

Greg Cartwright: guitar, vocals

Bushrod Thomas: drums

Compulsive Gamblers III: (Spring 1999 US Tour)

Jack Yarber: guitar, vocals