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Inside the great big dusty bag of cassettes in the attic, there are a few jewels to be extracted onto disc before the thing goes to the dump.
I used to record stuff off late night radio, and once Eugene Chadbourne was in a studio somewhere doing a Captain Beefheart song; but he sang it, unusually. The song is The Dust Blows Forward and the Dust Blows Back, which on the Trout Mask Replica album is a solo spoken track, a little moment of calm in between onslaughts. Chadbourne sang it, played banjo, had along with him Jimmy Carl Black on percussion, who according to the radio announcer (was it Andy Kershaw?) was playing a phone book and an upturned wastebasket. The Dust Blows Forward may or may not be about a wilderness fishing trip (what was it about 60s West Coast counterculture and trout? In the UK trout mean Old Money), and this Chadbourne cover of it is a little masterpiece.
You can find it here for a limited time: I've already had the polite note from mine host (it's not even halfway through the month) letting me know my bandwidth limit's been exceeded, so I'll have to take it down before the site gets closed or they want money or whatever.

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