THE WANDERING JEW
SHRIMPER 55 / 1994
There were earlier full-length efforts, but this was our first venture beyond cassettes and four tracks. Semi-competent indie-rock with bad singing. The Mountain Goats cover (“Tulsa Imperative”) is a song John played for me one day at Casa de Badger but refused to release because such was his purist streak at the time that if he failed to come up with an acceptable recording of a song within a day or so of its conception, that was it—any subsequent attempts at recording would lack the required immediacy—which, as I liked the song, pissed me off no end. Eventually, with John’s blessing, we just went ahead and recorded the damn thing ourselves. O but for the singing.