From 1972, when a hipster wasn't some java-gargling twat in arm tats and a neck beard, comes this extraordinarily fine recording. At the time, Finnigan & Wood ran a failing kishke franchise in Tarbleed Flats, UT. A chance encounter with a Shoshone "medicine man" in the local Kinkos led to a life-changing out-of-body experience, which the dizzy duo chronicled in their triple concept album Crazed Hipsters, featuring the spirit photograph taken with a Kinkos copy machine for the cover. Irving "Pancho" Cowznofski guests on nose flute, and you'll dig its wild berry topnotes and rootsy aftertaste.
Fast forward to 1978, and a carney boxing booth in Choke Crossing, AK, where bantamweight hopefuls Craig "Feather Fists" Fuller and Eric "Crybaby" Kaz are slugging it out for chump change. Midi-clinch, Fuller famously grunts, "Fuck dis shit, let's cut a swell country rock album! We'll be ridin' th' gravy train on biscuit wheels!" The rest is history, and, as P.T. Barnum averred, history is bunk.
(This post has been made possible through the mentorship of The Actuarial Board of Brandeis University, especially Renée "Buns" Baumschwinger, to whom our thanks are extended.)
Why, thank 'Buns'!
ReplyDeleteI'm in mid bikini wax right now - I'll up these when I have both hands free.
DeleteI'll wait here while that taint wax cools and sets but don't expect me to watch
DeleteFinnigan, Wood, Fuller & Kaz - together, they fight crime!
ReplyDeleteThanks heaps Farq. Probably rubbish, but what the hey! My ears are up to it (i think.)
ReplyDeleteThe only rubbish in this post is what I wrote. The music is fine.
DeleteFinnigan & Wood, fine stuff, you sir are ...well, thanks anyway
ReplyDeleteThank you much!
ReplyDeleteFuller & Kaz: Pure Prairie League, American Flyer, Bonnie Raitt, Linda Ronstadt, The Section (minus Kootch), Little Feat (minus Lowell). Love it, love it, love it.
ReplyDeleteDidn't know this album existed - thank you so much.
Cheers, Peanuts Molloy.
You know Farq, it's a funny thing, but those Mormons out in Utah have never taken to kishkes the way you'd expect. Ditto for cabbage rolls.
ReplyDeleteKudos for both reading the piece and getting the joke. Most of the Four Or Five Guys® just look at the pictures and wait for the link. Notthatheresanythingwrongwiththat.
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