Artist Martin Zellar

Songwriter Martin Zellar made his name as the leader of the band the Gear Daddies, which earned a cult following for blending weary but wry country-rock with raw, Replacements-style emotional vulnerability on 1988’s Let’s Go Scare Al and 1990’s Billy’s Live Bait. Zellar, however, is best known for a jaunty, sports-themed novelty song, “Zamboni,” which landed on the soundtrack to Disney’s The Mighty Ducks and can still be heard at hockey rinks around the country. After the Daddies broke up in 1992, Zellar moved on to a solo career, but he hasn’t released a studio album since 2002’s Scattered—until now, with the release of Roosters Crow, recorded in Texas and chronicling Zellar’s first few years in Mexico.  

Updated 02/01/2012