Clothesline Revival / Greatest Show On Mars, The
Album: Greatest Show On Mars, The   Collection:General
Artist:Clothesline Revival   Added:Jul 2014
Label:Paleo Music  

A-File Activity
Add Date: 2014-07-25 Pull Date: 2014-09-26
Week Ending: Sep 21 Sep 14 Sep 7 Aug 24 Aug 17 Aug 10 Aug 3 Jul 27
Airplays: 3 1 1 1 2 3 3 1

Recent Airplay
1. Sep 20, 2014: Global Warming
O Happy Land
4. Sep 09, 2014: Global Warming
Move Up
2. Sep 20, 2014: BravoMarco Variety Show
Not Have No Spot
5. Sep 01, 2014: Global Warming
O Happy Land
3. Sep 19, 2014: The Songsmith Show
Not Have No Spot, O Happy Land
6. Aug 21, 2014: Homeward Bound
O Happy Land

Album Review
Don Farrell
Reviewed 2014-07-25
Americana reinvented, Alan Lomax & others field recordings with updated instrumental backing.
Produced by and all instruments arranged and played by Conrad Praetzel(except harmonica by Turner Junior Johnson) All tracks are GREAT
1: 2:25 mid tempo, female vocal, nice guitars with handclap percussion
2: 2:26 mid tempo, INSTRUMENTAL
3: 3:14 slow to mid male vocal with harmonica then tremolo? guitar noodling(Turner Junior Johnson recorded by Alan Lomax, Clarksdale, MS on July 19, 1942.)
4: 4:20 mid to faster INSTRUMENTAL nice guitar picking with drone therimin
5: 4:47 slow to mid, male spoken word with electronics & e guitar (Unidentified 80 year old preacher’s sermon radio broadcast, SF Bay Area, 1980s.)
6: 1:59 slow instrument noodling
7: 3:30 mid tempo, electronic gunshot sounds then female vocal (Sidney Hemphill Carter) with tremolo guitar
8: 3:13 fast pounding e guitar boogie INSTRUMENTAL
9: 2:30 banjo, guitar, mandolin? with bass & drums INSTRUMENTAL
10: 2:24 mid tempo, male spoken word ( about UFO sighting), kick drum with low drone
11: 2:21 slow to mid tremolo e guitar noodling and drone INSTRUMENTAL
12: 4:08 mid tempo, male vocal & chorus with blues guitar & drum (Ed McNeil and “unidentified men” recorded by Alan Lomax at Fred McDowell’s home in Como MS on September 25, 1959.)
13: 2:23 mid to faster guitar INSTRUMENTAL

Track Listing
1. O Happy Land   7. Leather Britches
2. March Of The Cosmic Puppets   8. Barnun's Boogie
3. Steal Away   9. Barrel Of Feathers
4. The Last Train From Pluto   10. A Mysterious Light
5. Not Have No Spot   11. Olympus Mons
6. The Electric Ant   12. Move Up
  13. Cosmic Puppets Revisited