CAPTAIN BEEFHEART — The Spotlight Kid

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Album · 1972

Tracklist

A1 I'm Gonna Booglarize You Baby 4:34
A2 White Jam 2:57
A3 Blabber 'N Smoke 2:48
A4 When It Blows Its Stacks 3:41
A5 Alice In Blunderland 3:55
B1 The Spotlight Kid 3:21
B2 Click Clack 3:31
B3 Grow Fins 3:31
B4 There Ain't No Santa Claus On The Evenin' Stage 3:13
B5 Glider 4:37

Line-up/Musicians

Bass Guitar [Bassus Ophelius] – Rockette Morton
Drums – Drumbo, Rhys Clark, Ted Cactus
Guitar – Winged Eel Fingerling (tracks: A5)
Marimba, Piano, Harpsichord, Drums – Ed Marimba
Slide Guitar [Glass Finger], Slide Guitar [Steel Appendage] – Zoot Horn Rollo
Vocals, Harmonica, Bells [Jingle Bells] – Captain Beefheart

About this release

Reprise Records – K 44162 (UK)

Recorded at Record Plant Studios, Los Angeles, USA, during May-September 1971.

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A return to the twisted blues of pre-Trout Mask albums, The Spotlight Kid is an album of consolidation and taking stock for Beefheart rather than one in which he ploughs forward into new territory - though we're still leaning well towards the avant-garde side of the Mirror Man/Safe as Milk sound. The musical backing from the Magic Band seems a bit tired (and by all accounts, they were thoroughly fed up by this point), but Beefheart's vocal delivery and eccentric compositions remain diverting. It's not a vital part of the Beefheart discography, but it's certainly worth a listen if you're already a Beefheart devotee.

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