Too Much Fun!

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	^[1]
Christgau's Consumer Guide	A^[2]
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music	^[3]
Rolling Stone	^[4]
(The New) Rolling Stone Album Guide	^[5]
Spin	8/10^[6]

Too Much Fun! is a studio album by the psychedelic folk band the Holy Modal Rounders.^[7] It was released in 1999 through Rounder Records.^[8]^[9] It was the band's first album in more than two decades.^[10]

Critical reception

Salon wrote that "essential to the fun of Too Much Fun! are the lack of second takes and the healthy helping of tomfoolery that disguises—or supplants—lyrics forgotten or never learned in the first place."^[11]

Track listing

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Happy Rolling Cowboy"	Bob Nolan	2:02
2.	"Antoinette"	Steve Weber	2:33
3.	"Bad Boy"	M. Myrie, Peter Stampfel	3:41
4.	"Violets So Blue"	Traditional arr.	2:55
5.	"Euphoria"	Robin Remaily	2:54
6.	"Sail Away Ladies"	Traditional arr.	1:44
7.	"Penny's Farm"	Traditional arr.	2:49
8.	"Bonaparte's Retreat"	Pee Wee King, Redd Stewart	2:05
9.	"Tea Song"	Michael Hurley	2:38
10.	"Precious Jewel"	Roy Acuff	3:32
11.	"A Blues Serenade"	Vincent Grande, Jimmy Lytell, Mitchell Parish, Frank Signorelli	2:17
12.	"Skin Game"	Traditional arr.	2:25
13.	"Long Journey"	Traditional arr., Michael Hurley	1:57
14.	"Crowley Waltz"	Hackberry Ramblers	1:43
15.	"Little Girl and the Dreadful Snake"	Bill Monroe	3:05
16.	"Year of Jubilo"	Henry Clay Work	2:15
17.	"New John the Revelator"	Blind Willie Johnson	2:41

Personnel

The Holy Modal Rounders

Dave Reisch – bass guitar, vocals
Don Rooke – slide guitar
Peter Stampfel – fiddle, banjo, guitar, mandolin, vocals, production
Steve Weber – guitar, vocals

Additional musicians and production

David B. Greenberger – design
Frazier Mohawk – production
Dr. Toby Mountain – mastering
Phil Sheridan – engineering, mastering
Betsy Wollheim – photography
Jeff Wolpert – engineering

References

^ Morgenstein, Mark. "Too Much Fun". AllMusic. Retrieved August 13, 2012.
^ Christgau, Robert (2000-10-15). "The Holy Modal Rounders". Christgau's Consumer Guide: Albums of the '90s. Macmillan Publishing. ISBN 9780312245603.
^ Larkin, Colin (2011). The Encyclopedia of Popular Music. Omnibus Press. ISBN 9780857125958.
^ Berger, Arion (1999-09-16). "Too Much Fun!". Rolling Stone. No. 821. p. 118.
^ Brackett, Nathan; Hoard, Christian David, eds. (2004). "The Holy Modal Rounders". (The New) Rolling Stone Album Guide. Simon and Schuster. ISBN 9780743201698.
^ Weisbard, Eric (October 1999). "Holy Modal Rounders: Too Much Fun". Spin. Vol. 15, no. 10. Retrieved November 23, 2018.
^ "Holy Modal Rounders Hit The Road". MTV News.
^ Swartley, Ariel (July 18, 1999). "MUSIC; Round They Go Again, as Full of Fun as Ever" – via NYTimes.com.
^ "Grin 'n' Spin". LA Weekly. August 25, 1999.
^ "Reviews". CMJ New Music Report. CMJ Network, Inc. July 26, 1999 – via Google Books.
^ "Sharps & flats". Salon. July 29, 1999.

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