The Asylum Street Spankers

Hot Lunch


This, Asylum Street Spankers' sophomore recording, breezes in on acoustic guitar and ukulele strains and the words "Life ain't a cakewalk, it's a waltz/And they're playing my music out of time" — and it only gets better from there. Indeed, the Asylum Street Spankers, a loose, unplugged collective of Austin, TX, pickers and bon vivants, seem to have little trouble, on Hot Lunch's 16 cuts, deftly blending virtuosic musicianship with seemingly effortless musical and lyrical wit. The band flits between ragtime, country, old-style am radio pop tunes, swing, and country-blues with equal ease. The Spankers are — particularly on such puckish, narrative cuts as "Trippin' Over You," "Sad Bomber," and others — manage to walk the razor thin line between novelty and just plain fun-lovin' jamboree frolics. It's this graceful self-awareness that separates Asylum Street Spankers from such less graceful musical revivalists as the Squirrel Nut Zippers. In fact, on the cut "Smells Like Thirty-Something," the Spankers seem to, well, spank the mid-'90s swing revival craze on its rump, chiding, atop a rollicking, bluesy riff, "I like martinis/and I like cigars/But I hate martini and cigar bars." Somewhere between that sense of humor and vocalist/instrumentalist (for every Spanker is a multi-instrumentalist) Christina Marrs' sublime vocals lies the charm of Asylum Stret Spankers as expressed in these grooves. A beautiful, rocking, and rollicking unplugged beer-and-pot party populated with the most unpretentious, heartbreaking characters you're ever likely to meet.

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01. (00:03:12) Asylum Street Spankers - Cakewalk
02. (00:03:42) Asylum Street Spankers - I Don't Wanna
03. (00:04:00) Asylum Street Spankers - Trippin' Over You
04. (00:02:36) Asylum Street Spankers - U.F.O. Attack
05. (00:03:48) Asylum Street Spankers - If I Were You
06. (00:03:12) Asylum Street Spankers - Colonel Josh's B.B.Q.
07. (00:04:12) Asylum Street Spankers - Hot Lunch
08. (00:05:23) Asylum Street Spankers - Blue Prelude
09. (00:03:03) Asylum Street Spankers - Smells Like Thirty-Something
10. (00:02:40) Asylum Street Spankers - Fanny
11. (00:04:58) Asylum Street Spankers - Island Angel
12. (00:07:06) Asylum Street Spankers - Smo-o-oth One
13. (00:03:08) Asylum Street Spankers - Bijou
14. (00:04:05) Asylum Street Spankers - Sad Bomber
15. (00:02:40) Asylum Street Spankers - New Jazz Fiddle
16. (00:03:38) Asylum Street Spankers - Asylum Street Blues

Playing Time.........: 01:01:23
Total Size...........: 141.11 MB







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Live (Live)


Live captures the wackiness and musical acumen of the Asylum Street Spankers equally well. Their humor — which can make the music sound near-parodic — may frustrate some purists, but their talent for folk-blues, string band music and jump blues may win them over yet. There's a bit more energy and flair on Live than their studio albums, which helps make it their best record to date.

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01. (00:05:55) Asylum Street Spankers - Mama Don't Allow
02. (00:00:13) Asylum Street Spankers - Intro ...Sugar in My Bowl
03. (00:05:50) Asylum Street Spankers - ...Sugar in My Bowl
04. (00:02:12) Asylum Street Spankers - Sittin' on Top of the World
05. (00:04:13) Asylum Street Spankers - Lullaby of the Leaves
06. (00:05:35) Asylum Street Spankers - Since I Met You Baby
07. (00:00:36) Asylum Street Spankers - Intro Wammo
08. (00:03:09) Asylum Street Spankers - Walkin' Blues
09. (00:00:13) Asylum Street Spankers - Intro Summertime
10. (00:06:20) Asylum Street Spankers - Summertime
11. (00:00:59) Asylum Street Spankers - Intro Continental Club
12. (00:03:05) Asylum Street Spankers - Jerry the Junker
13. (00:04:55) Asylum Street Spankers - Deep Ellum Blues
14. (00:07:30) Asylum Street Spankers - Tain't Nobody's Bizness...
15. (00:02:19) Asylum Street Spankers - Chinatown
16. (00:03:03) Asylum Street Spankers - Drunkard's Wave
17. (00:03:16) Asylum Street Spankers - Coffee Grindin' Blues
18. (00:03:14) Asylum Street Spankers - Children of the Cornnuts
19. (00:03:30) Asylum Street Spankers - Black Eye Blues
20. (00:02:42) Asylum Street Spankers - Banks of the Ohio
21. (00:03:30) Asylum Street Spankers - Last Kind Word Blues

Playing Time.........: 01:12:19
Total Size...........: 165.58 MB






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Spanks For The Memories



Sometimes there's a thin line between tribute and parody, and Austin's acoustic Asylum Street Spankers walk that line with more grace and dignity than most. On their debut album, the Austin-based collective borrows classic jug band instrumentation, vocal mannerisms, and in some cases even repertoire, imbuing songs like Lucille Bogan's "Shave 'Em Dry" and Robert Johnson's seminal blues "If I Had Possession Over Judgement Day" with both authenticity and irony. For the most part, it works well, largely due to the fact that the Asylum Street Spankers know when to go for camp appeal and when to play it straight. The contributions of co-frontman Wammo take the former route, with originals "Lee Harvey" and "Startin' to Hate Country" dependent on humor for their effectiveness; covers of pop standards "I'll See You in My Dreams" and "Brazil" are less affected. More surprising is the album's emotional range. How many groups could get away with sequencing a whimsical ode to marijuana ("Funny Cigarette," which succeeds based on its attention to vaudevillian detail, even though the band bettered it in 2000 with "Beer," which was essentially a rewrite) back to back with a darkly earnest glimpse at the underbelly of small-town America (Guy Forsyth's devastating "Hometown Boy")? Not many, and that boldness is the greatest strength of Spanks for the Memories, an album that's among the rawest yet most nuanced in the group's catalog. The 2002 reissue adds "Drunkard's Wave," a lurching barroom anthem, and "Black Eyed Blues," a comic tale of revenge that slyly echoes the bawdy early blues numbers the band holds dear.

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01. (00:00:24) Asylum Street Spankers - Intro
02. (00:05:11) Asylum Street Spankers - If I Had Possession Over Judgement Day
03. (00:03:02) Asylum Street Spankers - SuperChief
04. (00:04:12) Asylum Street Spankers - Song With No Words
05. (00:00:18) Asylum Street Spankers - Intro (2)
06. (00:04:28) Asylum Street Spankers - Lee Harvey
07. (00:03:16) Asylum Street Spankers - I'll See You in My Dreams
08. (00:02:51) Asylum Street Spankers - Hesitation Blues
09. (00:04:28) Asylum Street Spankers - Startin' to Hate Country
10. (00:05:17) Asylum Street Spankers - Walkin' & Whistlin' Blues
11. (00:02:46) Asylum Street Spankers - Shave'em Dry
12. (00:03:54) Asylum Street Spankers - Brazil
13. (00:03:30) Asylum Street Spankers - Tradewinds
14. (00:00:16) Asylum Street Spankers - Intro (2) (2)
15. (00:03:17) Asylum Street Spankers - Funny Cigarette
16. (00:05:29) Asylum Street Spankers - Hometown Boy
17. (00:03:06) Asylum Street Spankers - Black Eyed Blues
18. (00:03:32) Asylum Street Spankers - Drunkard's Wave

Playing Time.........: 00:59:17
Total Size...........: 90.92 MB






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Mercurial


Austin's all-acoustic ensemble covers a lot of ground on this typically eclectic outing. Blues, folk, jazz, rockabilly, klezmer, new wave, and even punk go through the Asylum Street Spankers' retro wringer, and all emerge in the band's typically swinging, if slightly gimmicky, fashion. The Beastie Boys' "Paul Revere" is transformed into an authentic rockabilly breakdown, somewhat like a combination of Manhattan Transfer and Sun-era Elvis. Black Flag's "TV Party" goes the hoedown route and now sounds like something the cast from Hee Haw recorded, complete with snappy TV jokes and theme songs from Bonanza, The Flintstones, and Jeopardy. Not as giggly but far better is a radically reworked version of the blues chestnut "Got My Mojo Workin'" sung as a slinky, finger-popping torch song by group co-founding member Christina Marrs. The swinging Dixieland side of the group is well represented by Sophie Tucker's "Some of These Days," a straight version enhanced by banjo, fiddle, and clarinet. A no-frills cover of the B-52's' "Dance This Mess Around" might be fun for those who don't know the original, but the Spankers' version doesn't noticeably improve or even alter the original and, worse, interrupts the flow of the album. The suggestive "Tight Like That," made popular by Tampa Red, gets the lyrics to Jim Carroll's "People Who Died" grafted onto the chorus, successfully combining two especially disparate genres in a very funny and unexpected — at least once — juxtaposition. Bessie Smith's salacious "Sugar in My Bowl," Ivory Joe Hunter's "Since I Met You Baby," and the pop standard "Shine on Harvest Moon" are all relatively unaltered, although the Spankers' winking humor is unmistakable. Mercurial is frisky, good-natured fun and a fine way to break into the band's lively retro sound and entertaining, self-deprecating but reverent Americana approach.

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01. (00:04:10) Asylum Street Spankers - Digga Digga Do
02. (00:03:36) Asylum Street Spankers - Paul Revere
03. (00:04:10) Asylum Street Spankers - D.R.I.N.K.
04. (00:04:07) Asylum Street Spankers - Since I Met You Baby
05. (00:04:32) Asylum Street Spankers - Shine on Harvest Moon
06. (00:04:27) Asylum Street Spankers - Got My Mojo Workin'
07. (00:02:51) Asylum Street Spankers - Some of These Days
08. (00:04:37) Asylum Street Spankers - Dance This Mess Around
09. (00:04:28) Asylum Street Spankers - TV Party
10. (00:04:20) Asylum Street Spankers - Hick Hop
11. (00:03:37) Asylum Street Spankers - Tight Like That
12. (00:07:02) Asylum Street Spankers - Sugar in My Bowl
13. (00:03:22) Asylum Street Spankers - Going Up to the Country, Paint My Mailbox Blue
14. (00:06:26) Asylum Street Spankers - It's a Sin to Tell a Lie

Playing Time.........: 01:01:46
Total Size...........: 107.87 MB






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Mommy Says No!

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01. (00:03:37) Asylum Street Spankers - Be Like You
02. (00:02:28) Asylum Street Spankers - Training Wheel Rag
03. (00:05:07) Asylum Street Spankers - You Only Love Me for My Lunchbox
04. (00:02:52) Asylum Street Spankers - Everybody Loves My Baby
05. (00:04:31) Asylum Street Spankers - Sidekick
06. (00:05:20) Asylum Street Spankers - When I Grow Up
07. (00:02:16) Asylum Street Spankers - Mommy Says No!
08. (00:04:48) Asylum Street Spankers - Don't Turn Out the Light
09. (00:04:11) Asylum Street Spankers - Boogers
10. (00:01:59) Asylum Street Spankers - Sliver
11. (00:04:09) Asylum Street Spankers - Super Frog
12. (00:03:05) Asylum Street Spankers - Think About Your Troubles
13. (00:01:51) Asylum Street Spankers - Outro

Playing Time.........: 00:46:13
Total Size...........: 84.63 MB




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My Favorite Record


If the 1990s' swing revival drew heavily from older styles of jazz, it also drew from the jug bands that re-emerged during the mid-'60s. In fact, listening to Wammo and Christina Marrs exchange lines on "Monkey Rag" reminds one of the male/female combo that worked so well for the Even Dozen Jug Band. There's a particularly spooky, soulful take of Willie Dixon's "Insane Asylum" with Marrs and Guy Forsyth sharing the lead, and the duo also delivers a bouncy take on the title track. Other songs written and sung by Marrs, like "Breathin'" and "No Song Sad Enough," capture a similar feel. Asylum Street Spankers, however, also draw from the blues, folk, and neo-traditionalism, creating a multi-layered music that never sticks to one genre for long. Forsyth's "Whatever" is a particularly bizarre piece that starts out like a bad protest song, only to evolve into the tale of a man who's willing to adopt a politically correct philosophy in order to bed a love interest. Stanley Smith's "Mountain Town" and Wammo's "Wingless Angels" move closer to alternative country, with banjo, harmonica, and dobro accompaniment. While most of these forays work well, the overall impact of My Favorite Record is somewhat disjointed. Asylum Street Spankers sound less like a band than a loose association that fragments into several bands. While this fragmentation lessens the impact of My Favorite Record, fans of retro-swing will nonetheless find a number of things to like about the album.

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01. (00:03:23) Asylum Street Spankers - Monkey Rag
02. (00:03:12) Asylum Street Spankers - Antifreeze
03. (00:03:01) Asylum Street Spankers - Breathin'
04. (00:05:47) Asylum Street Spankers - Whatever
05. (00:03:52) Asylum Street Spankers - Mountain Town
06. (00:04:10) Asylum Street Spankers - Wingless Angel
07. (00:03:55) Asylum Street Spankers - Smile
08. (00:04:11) Asylum Street Spankers - Wammo's Blues
09. (00:04:24) Asylum Street Spankers - Insane Asylum
10. (00:02:34) Asylum Street Spankers - The Minor Waltz
11. (00:03:44) Asylum Street Spankers - No Song Sad Enough
12. (00:02:33) Asylum Street Spankers - My Favorite Record

Playing Time.........: 00:44:47
Total Size...........: 102.51 MB






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Spanker Madness

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If you're ever flipping through the discs in your local record shop wondering "where might I find the perfect soundtrack for my weekend backyard hash get-down," the cover of Spanker Madness, a parody of the propaganda posters associated with the 1938 cult film classic Reefer Madness, should be enough to answer your question. Otherwise, here's the skinny on the disc: This latest Asylum Street Spankers hootenanny consists of 15-some people singing and playing up the wonders of cannabis with everything from guitars, ukuleles, and harmonicas to washboards, bells, and "various pieces of metal piled in the back of Leroy's '67 Ford F100 parked in the studio driveway." The songs are usually trite country blues and old-style jazz ditties: "Wake and Bake" is a love duet about a couple bonding over the morning's first toke of tea, and odd man out and executive producer Wammo stands up for his drug of choice on "Beer." All the tomfoolery (one of the record's more memorable lyrics goes "Marijuana makes me wanna eat candy and screw Madonna/With her hair bleached by peroxide/Huffin' on some nitrous oxide") and the lighthearted jam-session atmosphere makes it tough to take the Spankers seriously, but the album has its solemn moments. On "Take the Heat," for instance, Guy Forsyth sings about a busted woman battling to keep custody of her daughter. Like the doobies they sing about, the lead vocal duties are passed around from song to song, as are the instrumental solos. Wammo and fellow executive producer Christina Mars share most of the singing duties, although other notable performances include Forsyth on "Orion" and Stanley Smith keening like Randy Newman back in the day on "Another Blade of Grass." Other than maybe Dr. Dre's The Chronic, there's probably never been an album dedicated to the use of narcotics that has been too commercially successful. Which quickly dispels the notion that the 13 retro-sounding tunes on this disc are some kind of sellout-throwback gimmick. Coming on the heels of the derivative Big Bad Voodoo Daddy/Cherry Poppin' Daddies neo-swing trend, when suddenly any punk with a zoot suit who knew how to snap and pronounce that word (say it..."dad-dio") was hip, this disc's relative lack of contrivance was a breath of fresh air.


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1 High as You Can Be Marrs 5:12
2 Beer Wammo 3:25
3 Blade of Grass Smith 3:35
4 Take the Heat Forsyth 3:18
5 Winning the War on Drugs Wammo 3:08
6 Wake and Bake Marrs 1:58
7 Interlude Traditional 0:23
8 Knock Myself Out Marrs, Traditional 2:47
9 Amsterdam Wammo 5:02
10 Pakalolo Baby Marrs 2:38
11 Gettin' High Simeone 2:41
12 It's Dry Down Here Marrs 4:35
13 Orion Forsyth 3:19






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Dirty Ditties [EP]


2002, Spanks a Lot records
Live Recording


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1. If You Love Me (You'll Sleep On The Wet Spot) 4:04
2. Two On One 3:08
3. Everybody's Fucking But Me 3:36
4. The Scrotum Song 11:22

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God's Favorite Band (2009)




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01 - Dark Was The Night, Cold Was The Ground
02 - Shadrach, Meshach, And Abednego
03 - Each Day
04 - Right And Wrong
05 - Jesus Walking On The Water
06 - Last Mile Of The Way
07 - Down By The Riverside
08 - By And By
09 - Volkswagen Thing
10 - Wade In The Water
11 - It Ain't Necessarily So

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A Christmas Spanking

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01. (00:00:47) Asylum Street Spankers - Intro
02. (00:03:11) Asylum Street Spankers - You're a Mean One, Mr. Grinch
03. (00:03:53) Asylum Street Spankers - Merry Christmas, Baby
04. (00:04:08) Asylum Street Spankers - What Are You Doing New Year's Eve?
05. (00:02:26) Asylum Street Spankers - 'Zat You, Santa Claus?
06. (00:04:25) Asylum Street Spankers - Baby, It's Cold Outside
07. (00:04:09) Asylum Street Spankers - 12.25.61
08. (00:01:43) Asylum Street Spankers - Blue Christmas
09. (00:03:21) Asylum Street Spankers - Mele Kalikimaka
10. (00:04:28) Asylum Street Spankers - We Three Kings
11. (00:01:09) Asylum Street Spankers - Silent Night
12. (00:04:26) Asylum Street Spankers - Red Nosed Reindeer Blues
13. (00:04:56) Asylum Street Spankers - Linus and Lucy
14. (00:02:14) Asylum Street Spankers - Trim Your Tree
15. (00:03:59) Asylum Street Spankers - The Christmas Song
16. (00:04:02) Asylum Street Spankers - Far Away Christmas Blues

Playing Time.........: 00:53:16
Total Size...........: 60.57 MB




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Pussycat (Bootleg Series Volume Two: Live Rarities 2000-2004)

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Volume Two in the Spanker’s Bootleg Series represents the second half of their life from 2000 to 2004. A rotating cast of characters was a defining trait of the band in these years and the songs came and went with the musicians who brought them. Most of the songs in this collection are no longer in the repertoire and for whatever reason were never recorded in a proper studio setting. Included are covers of Dylan, Louis Armstrong, Ann Cole and Nine Inch Nails as well as Spankerized versions of songs from some solo albums.

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01. (00:03:10) Asylum Street Spankers - The Pussycat Song
02. (00:04:06) Asylum Street Spankers - Watching the River Flow
03. (00:03:18) Asylum Street Spankers - Got My Mojo Working
04. (00:06:38) Asylum Street Spankers - Home
05. (00:03:55) Asylum Street Spankers - Rumble with Madeat
06. (00:02:42) Asylum Street Spankers - Ring-Tail Tom
07. (00:04:09) Asylum Street Spankers - Smokey Dokey
08. (00:02:51) Asylum Street Spankers - Baby Won't You Please Come Home
09. (00:06:56) Asylum Street Spankers - Since Wammo Met You Baby
10. (00:03:12) Asylum Street Spankers - Dinah
11. (00:03:31) Asylum Street Spankers - Jug Band Music
12. (00:03:55) Asylum Street Spankers - Bluesy Little Tune
13. (00:04:27) Asylum Street Spankers - Whiskey Love Song
14. (00:04:15) Asylum Street Spankers - Topsy
15. (00:04:08) Asylum Street Spankers - You Made the Night Too Long
16. (00:02:15) Asylum Street Spankers - Can't You Tell
17. (00:01:29) Asylum Street Spankers - The Birthday Spanking Song
18. (00:04:46) Asylum Street Spankers - Closer (I Wanna Fuck You Like an Animal)

Playing Time.........: 01:09:41
Total Size...........: 127.63 MB




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Strawberry: Bootleg Series, Vol. 1(2004)

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Volume one of the Bootleg Series was recorded live at the Strawberry Festival, May 1998, Camp Mather, CA. This was the band's largest audience to date, inspiring a show that stands as one of the Spankers' favorite performances; with a smoking-hot line-up: Christina, Wammo, Stanley, pops, Mysterious John, Eamon, Leroy, Rick Ramirez, Salty and Josh.

Liner Note Author: Christina Marrs.
Recording information: Strawberry Music Festival, Camp Mather, CA (05/23/1998).
Arranger: Josh Arnson.

Asylum Street Spankers: Rick Ramirez (bass instrument); Christina Marrs, Josh Arnson, Leroy Biller, Stanley Smith, Wammo, Eamon McLoughlin, Pops Bayless, Mysterious John, Jimmie Dean.

Personnel: Stanley Smith (vocals, guitar, clarinet); Josh Arnson (vocals, guitar); Pops Bayless (vocals, tenor guitar, tenor banjo, mandolin, slide whistle); Christina Marrs (vocals, tenor guitar, tenor banjo, ukulele); Wammo (vocals, harmonica, washboard); Mysterious John (vocals, kazoo); Jimmie Dean (vocals, drums); Leroy Biller (guitar); Eamon McLoughlin (fiddle).

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01. (00:00:33) Asylum Street Spankers - Intro
02. (00:03:06) Asylum Street Spankers - UFO Attack
03. (00:04:00) Asylum Street Spankers - Funny Cigarrette
04. (00:05:00) Asylum Street Spankers - If I Were You
05. (00:04:27) Asylum Street Spankers - Banks Of The Ohio
06. (00:06:38) Asylum Street Spankers - A Smooth One
07. (00:03:59) Asylum Street Spankers - Sad Bomber
08. (00:03:03) Asylum Street Spankers - Fanny
09. (00:05:44) Asylum Street Spankers - Song With No Words
10. (00:04:09) Asylum Street Spankers - I Don't Wanna
11. (00:03:41) Asylum Street Spankers - Colonel Josh's BBQ
12. (00:03:33) Asylum Street Spankers - New Jazz Fiddle
13. (00:04:56) Asylum Street Spankers - Lee Harvey
14. (00:05:58) Asylum Street Spankers - Move To The Country
15. (00:01:24) Asylum Street Spankers - Thunderous Applause
16. (00:06:55) Asylum Street Spankers - It's A Sin To Tell A Lie

Playing Time.........: 01:07:05
Total Size...........: 96.13 MB




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What? And Give Up Show Biz? (2008)

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Topical, humorous, multifariously virtuosic, and never afraid of a dirty joke, the Asylum Street Spankers have always been more at home on-stage than in the studio. This two-disc set documents the highlights from a two-week stint at the Barrow Street Theatre in New York, and offers a fairly predictable program of fan favorites ("Beer," "Winning the War on Drugs," "Stick Magnetic Ribbons on Your SUV") augmented by extensive between-song patter. Not all of the patter is quite as funny as it really ought to be, but the performances are tight and energetic and anyone who misses the Squirrel Nut Zippers or enjoys the political Great Folk Scare stylings of the Foremen will get a big kick out of this band. There's also some throat singing, a musical saw, a blistering version of "Got My Mojo Workin'" (sung by the brilliant Christina Marrs), more than one puerile novelty number (most notably the sniggering "My Country's Calling Me"), and a handful of brilliant, fully realized originals as well: note in particular Marrs' spectacular period piece "Monkey Rag." The album's most potentially embarrassing moment -- a putative country-rap fusion titled "Hick Hop" -- somehow manages to avoid being deeply embarrassing and succeeds at being merely boring. Overall, this is a good two-disc set that would have been an excellent one-disc set -- but since it's priced like a single disc, there's no reason to complain. ~ Rick Anderson


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01. (00:02:03) Asylum Street Spankers - 'Ladies and Gentlemen... I've Wasted My Life'
02. (00:03:20) Asylum Street Spankers - Everybody Loves My Baby
03. (00:00:17) Asylum Street Spankers - 'Nice Theater'
04. (00:00:48) Asylum Street Spankers - 'My Country's Calling Me'
05. (00:04:17) Asylum Street Spankers - Winning the War on Drugs
06. (00:05:41) Asylum Street Spankers - Blue Prelude
07. (00:00:50) Asylum Street Spankers - 'It's good to be here in, uh....'
08. (00:03:42) Asylum Street Spankers - Why Do It Right?
09. (00:01:49) Asylum Street Spankers - 'Stanley and Wammo'
10. (00:06:26) Asylum Street Spankers - Since I Met You Baby
11. (00:01:10) Asylum Street Spankers - 'Gig from Hell'
12. (00:03:43) Asylum Street Spankers - Monkey Rag
13. (00:01:02) Asylum Street Spankers - 'The Morning Moron Mob'
14. (00:02:45) Asylum Street Spankers - Medley of Burned Out Songs
15. (00:03:50) Asylum Street Spankers - Beer
16. (00:01:39) Asylum Street Spankers - 'Strange Talents'
17. (00:03:56) Asylum Street Spankers - Leaf Blower
18. (00:07:10) Asylum Street Spankers - 'The Bus Story'
19. (00:03:16) Asylum Street Spankers - Think About Your Troubles
20. (00:00:58) Asylum Street Spankers - 'Daddy Drinks Because You Cry'
21. (00:06:28) Asylum Street Spankers - You Only Love Me For My Lunchbox

Playing Time.........: 01:05:09
Total Size...........: 100.31 MB



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01. (00:01:37) Asylum Street Spankers - 'Y'all like love songs?'
02. (00:05:40) Asylum Street Spankers - My Baby in the CIA
03. (00:01:08) Asylum Street Spankers - 'Read thinner books.'
04. (00:05:16) Asylum Street Spankers - Asylum Street Blues
05. (00:03:08) Asylum Street Spankers - Breathin'
06. (00:00:40) Asylum Street Spankers - 'bathroom break'
07. (00:04:10) Asylum Street Spankers - Big Noise From Winnetka
08. (00:04:56) Asylum Street Spankers - Big Noise From Winnetka
09. (00:04:05) Asylum Street Spankers - Got My Mojo Workin'
10. (00:01:22) Asylum Street Spankers - 'take a good look...'
11. (00:05:47) Asylum Street Spankers - My Favorite Record
12. (00:01:12) Asylum Street Spankers - 'Encore!'
13. (00:04:21) Asylum Street Spankers - Blade of Grass
14. (00:00:47) Asylum Street Spankers - 'Requests?'
15. (00:04:10) Asylum Street Spankers - Pakalolo Baby
16. (00:05:10) Asylum Street Spankers - Tight Like That
17. (00:03:23) Asylum Street Spankers - Wake and Bake
18. (00:04:14) Asylum Street Spankers - TV Party
19. (00:00:36) Asylum Street Spankers - 'goodnight'
20. (00:03:31) Asylum Street Spankers - Stick Magnetic Ribbons on Your SUV

Playing Time.........: 01:05:14
Total Size...........: 105.71 MB





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