The Jimmy Carl Black Story

Tracklist

Best experienced from track one — press play and let it unfold.

Disc 1

• 1 En Route 3:20
• 2 Hi Boys And Girls, I'm Jimmy Carl Black 3:20
• 3 An Early Glimpse Of Planet Ruth 6:16
• 4 Spaceship Bigear III 7:50
• 5 Turn It On, Elliot 4:00
• 6 A Helping Hand From Unca Mickey 3:10
• 7 Opal, You Hot Little Bitch 3:10
• 8 Jimmy Carl Black's Dachs Reduction 7:31
• 9 Mayday From Space 2:21
• 10 First Encounter In Space With A Real Martian 6:10
• 11 Oh No, She's Trying To Rip My Spacesuite Open 4:10
• 12 A Creature Is Lurking In The Shadow 4:20
• 13 Jimmy-As-A-Ghost 3:20

Disc 2

• 1 "My Name Is Jimmy Carl Black" 3:18
• 2 The Atomic Gadget On Anthony / "That Happened In Our Little Town" 1:36
• 3 "No Trumpets In Rock'n'Roll" / The Keys 3:06
• 4 California In 1964 / "In Walked Roy Estrada" / The Soul Giants / Auditioning Frank Zappa / The Beginnings Of The Mothers Of Invention / "That's Not An R&B Band" / Freak Out 8:41
• 5 "Then We Went To Hawaii" / LSD 2:17
• 6 Back To LA / Frenchy's A Go-Go / The Original Suzy Creamcheese / "You, You And You - Outside!" 3:57
• 7 San Francisco And Fillmore West / Freak Out Comes Out / "Turn It On, Elliot!" 3:31
• 8 New York City / Absolutely Free / Off-Off Broadway At The Garrick Theater / Don Preston And Bunk Gardner / The Mothers' Daily Rehearsals / We're Only In It For The Money / Moving To Woodstock 6:09
• 9 Europe 1967 / Barbarella And Roger Vadim / Zappa Food Poisoned In Italy / Stockholm / Copenhagen / Lost With A Dutch Driver / "An Exciting Time" 4:14
• 10 "He Didn't Like Hippies" / Jammin' With Jimi Hendrix 1:44
• 11 Miami Pop Festival / Freak Out At The Cast Away Hotel / Arthur Brown / Jimi Hendrix / A Helping Hand From Unca Mickey 4:04
• 12 Captain Beefheart / Dealing With Herbie / Linda Ronstadt 1:10
• 13 Back To California 1968 / The Mothers' Second European Tour / Royal Festival Hall / Ahead Of Their Time / Uncle Meat / Reuben And The Jets / Burnt Weeny Sandwich / The Band Breaks Up / Beyond The Mothers Of Invention / Geronimo Black / Weasel Ripped My Flesh 2:34
• 14 Janis Joplin / Grace Slick / Jefferson Airplane 1:22
• 15 Donuts In Austin 1973 / New Mexico / Big Sunny And The Little Boys / Bandidos 1:39
• 16 Albuquerque / Clearly Classical / The Blob Shaped LP / Welcome Back Geronimo Black / Return To Austin 1982 / Willie Nelson's Soup Creek Saloon / The Gentlemen Of Colour / Brown, Black & Blue / Steve Ray Vaughan / The Golden Echoes / The Mighty Cloud Of Joy / Junior Franklin's Printshop 9:17
• 17 Zappa Music Again / The Austin Grandmothers 1988 / Settlement With Frank 3:12
• 18 Eugene Chadbourne / Germany / Dreams On Longplay / The Grandmothers / The Muffin Men 2:47
• 19 Meeting Moni / "Not On Sunday, Not In Bavaria" 2:05
• 20 The Grandmothers 1998 / Eating The Astoria / Leukemia / Jack & Jim Show / Strange News From Mars / "Blessed With Music" / John And Ringo / "It's An Instrument That Makes Noise" / "Thank You" 3:46

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