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cover of Bloodsucker Blues

Bloodsucker Blues

  1. A Toast
  2. Let Go!
  3. Mosquito Blues
  4. Monkey Blues
  5. Bystander Blues
  6. Swollen Dam Breakdown Blues
  7. Weird Sister Blues
  8. Belshazzar Blues
  9. Poison Snake Blues
  10. Failure
  11. She-Bat
  12. The Sheep Are Wet With Dew
  13. A Tale of Horror
  14. Fleur de Lys Blues

To hear some of the music go to the Bloodsucker Blues section of the Listen page

The cover art provided a clue to the nature of the Bloodsucker Blues album in the form of an oil painting of two genetically damaged naked men and a crocodile being strangled. This was recorded as a hodge-podge; some self produced 4 track recordings, a good dose of songs recorded to tape in Providence by Pete Donnelly (of The Figgs) and a couple tunes captured in Cambridge by Paul Bryan. Stylistically all over the place, it was lyrically focused on blood-sucking beasts and Orson Welles, who was himself a bit of an expert in that field.

For more about Bloodsucker Blues go to the Album Extras page of the Gloss section.