Shiva Burlesque Mercury Blues (+ Skulduggery) Vinyl LP Blue Colour 2023

Blue Colour Vinyl

Tracklist:

1. Mercury Blues
2. Do The Pony
3. Cherry Orchard
4. Sick Friend
5. Chester the Chimp
6. Chrome Halo
7. Who is the Mona Lisa?
8. Nez Perce
9. Sparrow Song
10. Peace
11.At Last Our Flag Has Fallen
12. Chrome Halo
13. Nez Perce (Demo #2)
14. Stoves! (4 Track demo)
15. Moonchild (4 Track demo)
16. Sick Friend (4 Track demo)
17. Who is the Mona Lisa?
18. Chrome Halo (4 Track demo)
19. Paul is Dead (24 Track demo)
20. Do the Pony (4 Track "Trio" demo)
21. Sparrow Song (4 Track demo)
22. Mink Emeralds Play (8 Track recording)

Shiva Burlesque released a pair of vivid, multi-faceted albums: Shiva Burlesque (1987) with drummer Joey Peters and bassist James Brenner; followed by Mercury Blues (1990), again with Peters on drums, Paul Kimble replacing Brenner, and featuring cellist Greg Adamson. Between the two albums the songwriting output by Jeff Clark and Grant Lee Phillips elevated into high gear, and the band recorded a number of new songs in demo versions, mostly on a home studio eight track cassette machine with Paul Kimble engineering. Work began on the Mercury Blues album proper in early summer of 1990, tracking (largely after-hours during "down time") at Village Recorders, one of the best equipped, finest sounding, studios in Los Angeles at the time.