Daddy's Highway is the 1987 debut album by New Zealand indie rock group the Bats.

While touring in the U.K. that year, an acquaintance in Glasgow offered the use of his home 8 track studio.

[7] Upon their return to New Zealand, recording was completed at Nightshift in Christchurch, and the album was released by Flying Nun in 1987.

[9] Billboard Los Angeles bureau chief Dave DiMartino named it one of the 10 best albums of 1989 in a year-end issue of that magazine,[10] while Everett True called it a "minor masterpiece".

The compact disc release swapped the order of sides one and two of the LP and added five bonus tracks: "Calm Before the Storm" and "Candidate", which were the B-sides to the "Block of Wood" single; and "Mad on You", "Trouble in This Town" and "Made Up in Blue", which constituted the band's Made Up in Blue EP.