You can listen to samples of The Chaps at CD Baby, where you can also buy Chaps' CDs.

Alternatively, you can email The Chaps at:

The Chaps
Care of "Twang Town",
45 Moray Place,
Dunedin,
New Zealand.
Phone: +61 3 477 1232
Email: info(at)thechaps.com

The long-awaited CD from the Chaps has finally been released. Following the success of "In the Club", which featured tracks from a live concert, The Chaps decided to produce a studio album. The result, "Hiphopalong", features 14 tracks, including songs written by each of the Chaps, and by former New Zealander Paul Metsers.

The Chaps are assisted on this album by many other fine musicians, including Doug Wright, Chris Maydon, Jim Strang, Red McElvie, Mike Gibbs, Robin Wellaway, Jo van der Laarn and a string quartet!

Nick Leaden and Nigel Jenkins engineered the recording of many of the tracks, and the mixing was completed by Hyram Ballard.

• A Believer Like Me (Turner)
• Pathway of Love (Metsers)
• Thought of the Longer Days (Moroney)
• Thank You For Leaving Me (Ballard)
• I'm Gonna Try Again (Turner)
• Line of Fire (Dodd)
• Walking One and Only (Hicks)
• Portrait of a Serial Photographer (Dodd)
• The Simple Life (Metsers)
• Thirty Days or Thirty Dollars (Ballard)
• Flow and Ebb (Dodd)
• You Sure Did a Number on Me (Turner)
• Eye of the Storm (Dodd)
• Do It Without the Numbers (Turner)

A concert at the University of Otago Staff Club on 3 July 1993 was recorded on a 16-track analog machine, and selected tracks were overdubbed and mixed at Remarkable Records in Queenstown, New Zealand.

The result is a fine collection of original material, and other songs seldom heard elsewhere.

This new CD release features 4 previously unreleased tracks, mixed by Hyram Ballard and John Dodd and mastered by Hyram Ballard at Magnetic South.

Side One

• Toward the Light (M. Turner)
• Blues at Sunrise (J. Dodd)
• One at a Time (Wayne/Raleah)
• Tiff (M. Turner)
• Land of the Navajo (P. Rowan)
• Eye of the Storm (J. Dodd)
• Wife and Mother (Trad./Jolly Boys)
• Red Blooded Lover (J. Dodd/S. Smith)
• Ashes of Love (Analin, Analin, Wright)
• One Step Over the Line (J. Hiatt)
• Karikari Kirikiri (H. Melbourne)
• Deep Elem Blues (Trad.)
• Money Tree (H. Pendergast)
• There's a Party Goin' On (M. Turner)