Albums

The Hot Rats have several albums available individually and collectively.

The first offering was a cassette entitled 'The Hot Rats with Doug Hudson' which featured Ian, Dougie, Mick and Rico with lead electric guitar from Steve Shorey and some fiddle and keyboard work from Ian's sister, Val.

Track listings are:

• Kid on the Mountain
• Carrickfergus
• The Rakes of Kildare/Tenpenny Bit
• Nine Points of Roguery/The Teetotaller
• Whiskey in the Jar
• The Merry Blacksmith/The Scholar
• The Fields of Athenry
• Seven Inch Reel/Foggy Mountain Breakdown/Sweets of May

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The first Hot Rats CD was recorded 'live' at the Prince of Wales pub in Strood. Ian's cousin Wayne designed the cover with distinctive Rat logo and the 13 tracks are as follows:

• andy renwick's ferret
• banks of newfoundland
• nine points of roguery/the teetotaller
• billy
• cooley's reel/maid behind the bar
• white walls, white rum
• drunken priest/ash plant
• mira dreams of england
• rocky road to dublin/foxhunters' jigs/kid on the mountain
• carrickfergus
• killarney boys of fun
• the pigeon on the gate
• farewell to ireland

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Doug Hudson's songs have received a lot of interest and Peter Learmouth - a former member of Tundra, and collaborator with Doug's comedy ventures - produced the solo album 'Happy Now?' which was recorded over a period of five years.

These are the tracks on Happy Now?

• White Walls, White Rum
• Dead Man Blues
• Like Flies
• Cameraman
• I Don't Care If They All Think She's Marilyn
• Mira Dreams of England
• Mercedes in the Drive
• Billy
• Happy Now?

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  The third Hot Rats CD with original material from Ian and Doug, and songs in German, Hungarian, Russian and English:
  • Macedon Expresz Variation
  • Lark in the Morning/Rakish Paddy
  • Mercedes in the Drive
  • Orange Blossom Special
  • Duna Rol Fuja Szel (A Cold Wind Blows Over the Danube)
  • Music For a Found Harmonium
  • Die Moorsoldaten (Peat Bog Soldiers)
  • Smeceno Horo
  • Like Flies
  • Bonny Kate/The Teetotaller
  • Moscow Nights
  • Dashing White Sergeant

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    The long awaited fourth album of the Hot Rats is very representative of the current line up.

    Hot Rats Three signifies not only the third album but the fact that the band is a three piece outfit and sounds 'live' like what is on the album. What is on the album?

    • Jig of Slurs
    • Santy Anna
    • Monti Czardas
    • Step It Out Mary
    • Last Night's Fun/Hardiman the Fiddler
    • Katusha
    • Bulgaro
    • January Man/Paddy Ryan's Dream
    • Salmon Tails Up the Water/Flowers of Edinburgh
    • Rehradice/A Walk in Brevnov

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    The newest album of the Hot Rats is very representative of the current live act.

    Tour de France was recorded in two venues in France in October 2008 - La Soiree Que N'Existe Pas and the Theatre Les Insolites where the Rats play regularly.

    Here are the track listings

    • Cooley's Reel
    • Song of the Plains
    • Americans
    • Merrily Kissed the Quaker
    • Santy Anna
    • Orange Blossom Special
    • Dark Eyes
    • Arabesque/Hava Nagila
    • Step It Out Mary
    • Jig of Slurs
    • Farewell to Ireland
    • Katyusha
    

    Ian Cutler has just recorded his own solo album which is called 'Slaughterhouse'. There are some interesting musicians on this new album, including Steeleye Span's Peter Knight, Hugh Crabtree from Feast of Fiddles, Carlton Hunt (the drummer with Bad Manners), Colin Reece, who used to play with Ian in the Bully Wee Band and Charlotte de Speville vocalising on Mercedes with S.J plus the usual Rats in one form or another.

    Here are the track listings on Slaughterhouse

    • Preacher Ring the Bell
    • Azerie
    • Mercedes in the Drive
    • Even Hookers Sing the Blues
    • Orange Blossom Special
    • Sally Free and Easy
    • When Mother Says Move
    • Princess Royal/Battle of the Somme
    • The Swan
    • Whirlyjig

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    If you want to hear some examples of the Hot Rats' music, go to HOT RATS SOUND CLIPS

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