Wee Hairy Beasties, Animal Crackers - 44m 35s

Tracks & Durations

1. Wee Hairy Beasties	3:00
2. Flies On My Tears	1:39
3. Animal Crackers	2:07
4. Ragtime Duck	2:10
5. Housefly Blues	3:08
6. A Newt Called Tiny	0:16
7. I'm An A.N.T.	2:40
8. Road Safety Song	1:59
9. Cuttlefish Bone	2:47
10. Glow Worm	1:08
11. Buzz Buzz Buzz	1:49
12. Cyril The Karaoke Squirrel	4:43
13. Toenail Moon	3:55
14. Lightnin' The Turtle	1:36
15. Wee Hairy Beasties Reprise	3:00
16. Txt	8:31

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Review

A kids' album by insurgent country's leading Marxist, disco country's leading diva, the sexiest member of the Mekons, and Chicago's most-juiced jug band? An improbable scenario, to be sure, save that John Langford, Kelly Hogan, Sally Timms, and Devil in a Woodpile are all close pals and frequent co-conspirators; you can imagine them tossing beers back at the Hide-Out and laughing hysterically as they devised their alter-egos: Cyril the Karaoke Squirrel, Marjorie the Singing Bee, and Monkey Double Dippey (as identities go, Devil in a Woodpile was already quirky enough). It's a fun, folksy, bluesy romp that never talks down to kids and never traffics in sentimentality. They turn the melody of "St. James Infirmary" into a buzzing, old-time ode to swimming the backstroke in a bowl of corn puffs and transform Muddy Waters' "Mannish Boy" into "I'm an A.N.T." (with a shout-out to Johnny the Cockaroacharoo). They cuddle with cuttlefish, root turtles across the dance-contest finish line, and sing helium-voiced love songs to glowworms. With imaginations as perverse, wacky, and voracious as the average six-year-old's, the Beasties simply have a blast. --Roy KastenThese Wee Hairy Beasties--Cyril the Karaoke Squirrel (Jon Langford), Marjorie the Singing Bee (Kelly Hogan), Monkey Double Dippey (Sally Timms), and the amazing musicians of Devil in a Woodpile--firmly believe that "kids' music" NEED! NOT! BE! UNLISTENABLE! In fact, their dance-with-ants-in-your-pants blend of back porch country blues, hippity-hop country, and wiggly old-timey swing is bound to please any child or adult--OR any insect, amphibian, reptile, mammal or other creature within earshot. The Wee Hairy Beasties first performed at Brookfield Zoo in Chicago--and being under the mistaken impression they would be playing FOR the animals, they wrote all their songs about animals. But there were children and parents there too, and--from what the Beasties could tell with their highly tuned instincts--the humans seemed to enjoy the show a great deal, and so it was agreed that a CD of this music must be concocted. The resulting buggy-bumping Beastie music on their debut album, Animal Crackers, is mostly for kids but it is groove-inducing for parents as well. Thrill your thorax with the sing-a-long tunes about ducks, squirrels, flies, newts, turtles and more! Let your inner music geek marvel at the dexterous harmonica and clarinet action--and the waterbug-graceful National steel guitar playing! Move any number of legs and warble along with the Beasties' scientifically excellent vocals! All creatures great and small will benefit from the important lessons about road safety, keeping flies off your supper, and the perils of karaoke. A plethora of songs about animals that are fun for music fans of all ages is already an embarrassment of riches, but Animal Crackers has more to share. The CD is also enhanced, with a video for "Toenail Moon," Sally Timms' first animated work.

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