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The Red Kryola: Amor And Language

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On June 3, 1995, “Drag City” label released “Amor and Language”, the first Red Krayola EP.

Personnel:

  • Mayo Thompson
  • Consuelo & Meme
  • Tricia Donnelly
  • John Elder
  • David Grubbs
  • George Hurley
  • Margo Leavin
  • Steve Linn
  • Sharon Lockhart
  • John McEntire
  • Albert Oehlen
  • Jim O’Rourke
  • Stephen Prina
  • Franz Schnaas
  • Alex Slade
  • Tom Watson
  • Christopher Williams
  • Steven Wong
  • Rachel Williams – cover model

Track listing:

  1. Hard on Through the Summer
  2. The Ballad of Younis and Sofia
  3. Luster
  4. Ai
  5. T (I,II)
  6. A-A-Allegories
  7. The Wind
  8. Stil de grain brun
  9. The Letter

Loudon Wainwright: Album III

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On June 15, 1972, “Columbia” label released “Album III”, the third Loudon Wainwright III studio album. It was recorded in 1972, at “Marquee Studios” in London, and was produced by Thomas Jefferson Kaye.

Personnel:

  • Loudon Wainwright III – vocals, guitar
  • Thomas Jefferson Kaye – guitar, rhythm guitar, arrangements
  • Charlie Brown III – guitar, electric guitar
  • Elliott Randall – electric guitar
  • Jimmy Ryan – guitar
  • Hugh McCracken – guitar
  • Eric Weissberg – dobro, guitar
  • Bill Keith – banjo, steel guitar
  • Teddy Wender – piano
  • “Sailor” Bob Schmidt – harmonica
  • Don Payne – electric bass
  • Tom Watson – electric bass
  • Richard Davis – bass
  • Richard Crooks – drums
  • David Sanborn – saxophone
  • David Amram – French horn
  • Kenny Kosek – fiddle, violin
  • White Cloud – Charles Brown III, Richard Crooks, Thomas Jefferson Kaye, Kenneth Kosek, Don Payne, Teddy Wender
  • Brooks Arthur – engineer, mixing
  • Fred Lombardi – cover photography
  • Milton Kramer – executive producer

Track listing:

All tracks by Loudon Wainwright III, except where noted.

  1. Dead Skunk
  2. Red Guitar
  3. East Indian Princess
  4. Muse Blues
  5. Hometeam Crowd
  6. B Side
  7. Needless To Say
  8. Smokey Joe’s Café – Jerry Leiber, Mike Stoller
  9. New Paint
  10. Trilogy
  11. Drinking Song
  12. Say That You Love Me

Red Crayola: Hazel

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On November 19, 1996, “Drag City” label released “Hazel” the eighth Red Crayola album.

Personnel:

  • Mayo Thompson – vocals, guitar
  • Jim O’Rourke – guitar, bass, piano, synthesizers
  • David Grubbs – vocals, guitar, piano
  • Tom Watson – guitar
  • Christopher Williams – vocals
  • George Hurley – drums
  • John McEntire – drums, percussion, synthesizer, electronics
  • Werner Büttner
  • Michael Baldwin
  • Lynn Johnston
  • Hei Han Khiang
  • Albert Oehlen
  • Stephen Prina
  • Elisa Randazzo
  • Mary Lass Stewart

Track listing:

  1. I’m So Blaze
  2. Duck & Cover
  3. Duke of Newcastle
  4. Decaf the Planet
  5. GAO
  6. Larking
  7. Jimmy Two Bad
  8. Fails
  9. We Feel Fine
  10. 5123881
  11. Hollywood
  12. Another Song, Another Satan
  13. Boogie
  14. Dad
  15. Father Abraham
  16. Serenade

Red Krayola: Introduction

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On April 18, 2006, “Drag City” label released “Introduction”, the ninth Red Krayola album. It was recorded in August 2005, at “Soma E.M.S.” in Chicago, Illinois, and was produced by Drag City.

Personnel:

  • Stephen Prina– vocals, guitar, harpsichord, piano, organ, tambourine
  • Mayo Thompson– vocals, guitar
  • Tom Watson – vocals, bass guitar, guitar, harpsichord, synthesizer
  • John McEntire– drums, synthesizer, ukulele, recording, mixing
  • Charlie Abel – accordion
  • Noel Kupersmith – bass guitar, photography
  • Roger Seibel – mastering
  • Dan Osborne – illustration
  • Chris Strong – photography

Track listing:

All lyrics by Mayo Thompson, all music by John McEntire, Stephen Prina, Mayo Thompson and Tom Watson.

  1. Introduction
  2. Breakout
  3. Cruise Boat
  4. Note to Selves
  5. F.G.
  6. A Tale of Two
  7. Psy Ops
  8. It Will Be (Delivered)
  9. Puff
  10. Greasy Street
  11. Vexations
  12. Elegy
  13. When She Went Swimming
  14. Swerving
  15. Bling Bling

Red Crayola and Art & Language: Five American Portraits

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On January 26, 2010, “Drag City” label released “Five American Portraits”, the fifth collaboration between Red Krayola and the art group Art & Language.

Personnel:

  • Gina Birch– vocals, bass guitar
  • Alex Dower – drums, percussion, backing vocals
  • Jim O’Rourke– bass guitar
  • Tom Rogerson– piano
  • Mayo Thompson– guitar, piano, vocals, mixing
  • Tom Watson – guitar
  • Fred Somsen – backing vocals
  • Dan Cox – backing vocals, engineer
  • Matt Ingram – backing vocals, engineer
  • Butchy Fuego – mixing
  • Rian Murphy– mixing

Track listing:

All lyrics by Art & Language, all music by The Red Krayola.

  1. Portrait of Wile E. Coyote
  2. Portrait of President George W. Bush
  3. Portrait of President Jimmy Carter
  4. Portrait of John Wayne
  5. Portrait of Ad Reinhardt

Red Krayola And Art & Language: Signs Trapped By Liars

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On September 17, 2007, “Drag City” label released “Sighs Trapped by Liars”, the fourth collaboration Red Krayola and Art & Language album.

Personnel:

  • Jim O’Rourke– acoustic guitar, harmonica, synthesizer, backing vocals, mixing, recording
  • Mayo Thompson– acoustic guitar, piano
  • Tom Watson – bass guitar, guitar
  • John McEntire– drums, recording
  • Noel Kupersmith – bass guitar
  • Elisa Randazzo– vocals, recording
  • Sandy Yang – vocals
  • Scott Benzel– recording
  • Roger Seibel – mastering
  • Art & Language– illustration, photography
  • Dan Osborn – design
  • Arthur Ou – photography

Track listing:

All lyrics by Art & Language; all music by John McEntire, Jim O’Rourke, Mayo Thompson and Tom Watson.

  1. Fairest of All
  2. Jumping Through the Mirror
  3. Laughing at the Foot of the Cross
  4. Il Ne Reste Qu’a Chanter
  5. Hostage
  6. Jerry Fodor’s Story
  7. The Big Vacation
  8. Four Stars: The Ideal Crew
  9. Igor Zabel’s Song
  10. A Pest
  11. Perfection
  12. Forty Thousand Words on a Chair
  13. Sighs Trapped by Liars

Red Krayola: Fingerpainting

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On June 8, 1999, “Drag City” label released “Fingerpainting”, the eighth Red Krayola album.

Personnel:

  • Mayo Thompson
  • Frederick Barthelme
  • Steve Cunningham
  • David Grubbs
  • Bobby Henschen
  • George Hurley
  • Albert Oehlen
  • Stephen Prina
  • Elisa Randazzo
  • Tom Watson
  • Christopher Williams
  • Sandy Yang

Track listing:

  1. George III
  2. Bad Medicine
  3. A Hybrid Creature of Greed, Ignorance and Powers of Comprehension Plays a Vaulted Drum Kit. The Playing Corresponds Completely to the Event. There Are Entrances and Exits. And There Is Gravitation, Where It Is Needed – Tears for Example
  4. There There Betty Betty
  5. The Greed of a Clarinet That Is Puffy from Crying Gets Tossed in Butter and Spread by Notes. This Process Depresses the Entire Orchestra So Much That It Only Plays Behind a Golden Partition. The Partition Is Decorated With Semi-Precious Attractive Diamonds
  6. Vile Vile Grass
  7. A Sow With an Abbess’s Bonnet Is Sitting on Four Rock-Objects and Singing Along With Them. The Song Sounds Like a Cheater, And Is Imprisoned in a Striped Toy Box Because Its Aims Are Not Recognizable. On Top of the Box Is a Head That Could Be Elvis’s, If He Had Survived This
  8. Mother
  9. Out of a Trombone That Is Divided Lengthways by a Partition of Gold Sound Seven Violins of Dynamite That Are Cut Sideways into Thin Slices. They Are Played by the Thrown Out Ex-Members of a Very Bad Band and Blown Up
  10. In My Baby’s Ruth, Sandy’s Drums With David & Shadwell, Filthy Lucre

Cast: Beetroot

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On July 30, 2001, “Polydor” label “Beetroot”, the fourth Cast album. It was recorded in 2001, at “Astoria Studio” and “Real World Studios”, and was produced by Tristin Norwell and John Power.

Personnel:

  • John Power– lead and backing vocals, guitar, mixing, arrangements
  • Liam “Skin” Tyson– guitar, backing vocals
  • Peter Wilkinson– bass, backing vocals
  • Keith O’Neill– drums, percussion, backing vocals
  • Lurine Cato, Michelle John, Rachel McFarlane – backing vocals
  • David Farmer, David Vines, David Williamson, James Watson, Richard Brown, Tom Edwards, Tom Watson, William Watson – brass
  • Paul Ellison – piano, flute
  • Tristin Norwell – engineer, mixing, arrangements
  • Simon B. Sheridan – engineer
  • Claire Lewis, Damon Iddins, Adrian Hall – engineer assistant
  • The Weathermen – ProTools operator
  • Lawrence Johnson – additional vocal arrangements
  • Kevin Metcalfe – mastering
  • Matthew Sankey – design
  • Barry Dawson, Martyn Goodacre, Brian Cannon– photography

Track listing:

All tracks by John Power.

  1. Desert Drought
  2. Heal Me
  3. Curtains
  4. Kingdoms and Crowns
  5. Giving It All Away
  6. Lose Myself
  7. I Never Can Say
  8. High Wire
  9. Meditations
  10. JetSteam
  11. U-Turn
  12. Universal Grinding Wheel