Garagezilla
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1. GARAGEZILLA (5:05) two decades of jamming, rehearsing, performing, and making things up comes down to a basement, a board, a tape recorder, and a microphone. [click here for mp3]
2. DRUNK (4:11) it takes all kinds to keep the world going--here's a salute to the ones who are drinking themselves to death in the gutter. [click here for mp3]
3. CAN'T SEE YOUR WAY (6:40) a meditation on the bittersweet mystery that is the industrial life and death of us modern primitives.
4. A SUNNY DAY (5:04) she broke his heart in the very best of ways so of course he had to write a song about it.
5. EXIT 56 (2:21) a song for Saturday night, the Rolling Stones, and the fact that the more things change the more they stay the same. [click here for mp3]
6. HELEN/FAUST (5:17) in one telling, Faustus is a wealthy and learned scholar who sells his soul to the Devil in exchange for the love of Helen of Troy.
7. COLOR (6:43) America's obsession, in the words of W.E.B. DuBois, "the problem of the Twentieth Century is the problem of the color-line"--new century, anyone? [click here for mp3]
8. MUSIC LESSON WALTZ (3:01) growing as an adult usually involves coming to grips with the scary and painful things that happened as a child.
9. JURGEN'S LOTION (3:46) James Branch Cabell of Virginia was a prolific writer of fictions fantastic and factual whose works inspire this lyric.
10. ANTHEM 77 (4:49) the businessmen, scientists, politicians, and clergymen, the powerful of our society, will enslave us if we let them.
11. JUMP DOWN TURN AROUND (4:24) meanwhile, down on the corporate plantation, thecotton-pickers are restless and looking for that drinking gourd.
12. EVERYTHING I DO GONH BE FUNKY (5:10) a very funky cover of the Allen Toussaint song immortalized by Lee Dorsey.
The Invertebrates:
Tom Wheeler = bass guitar on 1-12 / vocal on 11,12 /guitar on 3 /coauthor on 1-3,5-7,9-11
Mort Shapiro = vocal on 1-12 /recording engineer on 1-12 /coauthor on 1-3,5-10 /author on 4
Richard Vitale = drums on 1-12 /conga on 7
Steve Farzan = keyboard on 2-6,10,12 /guitar on 1,5,7,9,11,12 /coauthor on 1
with:
Gary Schwantes = saxophone on 4,5,7,9 /flutes on 8, 12
Leigh Ann Hussey = violin on 6,11 /vocal on 3,6,10,11
Larissa Brown Shapiro = vocal on 3,6,7,9-11
Dan Rielly = guitar on 1,7,10
Tezmerelda Compost = guitar on 8 /coauthor on 5,8
Michael Sanborn = vocal on 3,6,10,11
Big Bones = harmonica on 2
Lewis Jack Finzel = dombek on 10
Susan Moore = vocal on 4
Melinda Maeckle = vocal on 7
Tom Mallon = mix/master engineer on 1-12
Pad McLaughlin = coauthor on 7
Allen Toussaint = author on 12
Hudie Ledbetter = coauthor on 11
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