Eugene Chadbourne – LSDC&W - The History Of The Chadbournes In America (1987)


 

Artist: Eugene Chadbourne


Label: Fundamental 

Format: 2XLP

Catalog Number: SAVE 19/20

Year of Release: 1987

Country and Year of Edition: UK 1987

Sell Price: $8.52

Sell Date: 10/31/24

Condition: VG+/VG small 1" tear lower left bottom of cover

Discogs Last Sold: 6/22/24 NM/NM $9.00

Low: $5.50 NM/VG

Median: $10.93

Average: $12.97

High: $29.35 NM/NM 8/22/23

Current low price: $11.03

Current Number on Sale at Discogs: 17

Have/Want: 435/116

Where Sold: St. Clair Shores, MI

Time It Took To Sell:  8 years

Where and When Bought: 1987 new Al Bums Worcester about 12.99

Gwiz-gau Letter Grade: B

Sad To See It Go: No

I discovered Shockabilly's Eugene Chadbourne via his album Country Protest, which was in the new rotation at the time I did my very first radio show.  How could I resist a cover with a Jesse Helms sticker in the toilet and a cover of the Butthole Surfers "The Shah Sleeps In Lee Harvey's Grave?"  Eugene actually played in Worcester at the Worcester Artists Group around the time of this release from 1987, LSD C&W.  Who knows, maybe he even brought this copy to our local store.

Eugene was a combination of banjer, feedback, tape noise and reverbed out weirdness.  A one band band from Raleigh, NC.  Served up over two sides is a bit less listenable in one sitting, but at the same time the album is fully reflective of what he does.

The double record kicks off with a Beatles medley over 20 minutes long.  Day Tripper into I've Just Seen A Face into Birthday into Don't Pass Me By into Octopus Garden into Taxman into Lennon's "Startin' Over."  Then concludes the side with a Duke Ellington snippet "In A Sentimental Mood" that concludes on the other side.  Clearly this is "higher level" stuff joined by Kramer on "cheap" organ.

Such a high level that after this side ended, I began to dread flipping the record over and hearing the other side when I embarked on my second listen in two days.  I needed a break, but I also need to get through all 4 sides to at least have something beyond the cursory listen and the other cursory listen 37 years ago.

It is a conceptual record of what made the man.  You get a Roger Miller side and a Burl Ives side doing the same thing Eugene did with the Beatles.   Psychedelic covers somehow appear interspersed.  Love "7 and 7 Is" kicks off side, Hendrix "Third Stone From The Sun" and the Stones "Wild Horses" further interrupts Burl.

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