Honor Among Thieves

Honor Among Thieves is the debut album by the American band the Brandos, released in 1987. The first single was "Gettysburg", which was a minor hit on radio and MTV. The album peaked at No. 108 on the Billboard 200. The band supported the album with a North American tour that included stints opening for INXS, the Georgia Satellites, and the Cars. Honor Among Thieves won a New York Music Award for the best independent debut of 1987. Production Most of the album's songs were written by singer Dave Kincaid, who also produced. He strove to make the songs sound similar to each other. Kincaid's slide guitar playing was influenced by his love of the Allman Brothers Band's At Fillmore East. Honor Among Thieves was mixed at Power Station, in New York. "Strychnine" and "Walking on the Water" are covers of songs by, respectively, the Sonics and Creedence Clearwater Revival. "A Matter of Survival" is about domestic abuse. "Nothing to Lose" describes the possibility of death by murder.