Carla Bozulich - Red Headed Stranger

Go Carla!

I saw Evangelista last month. They were great. Saw guitarist Ava Mendozza's other band Mute Socialite (featuring ex-Sleepytime Gorilla Museum drummer Moe! Staino) just a few days ago.

I've been stalking Carla for years. Ethyl Meatplow, Geraldine Fibbers (x5), Scarnella, Red Headed Stranger, in-stores. I can never get enough of her voice or charm.

I actually brought her flowers at a Fibbers show once. She did not marry me though :(

disc 2: interpretive works

1. Mike Watt - "Tuff Gnarl" (Sonic Youth)
2. Scarnella - "Hot Pants (She Got To Use What She Got To Get What She Wants)" (James Brown)
3. Ethyl Meatplow - "Close To You" (Bacharach & David)
4. Carla Bozulich - "On The Nickel" (Tom Waits)
5. Scarnella - "I Thought About You" (Johnny Mercer)
6. The Geraldine Fibbers - "Jolene" (Dolly Parton)
7. The Geraldine Fibbers - "If Drinkin' Don't Kill Me" (George Jones)
8. The Geraldine Fibbers - "He Stopped Loving Her Today" (George Jones)
9. The Geraldine Fibbers - "The Grand Tour" (George Jones)
10. The Geraldine Fibbers - "Hands On The Wheel" (Jerry Jeff/Billy Callery)
11. Carla Bozulich featuring Willie Nelson - "Can I Sleep In Your Arms?" (Jeannie Seely)
12. The Geraldine Fibbers - "Pills" (New York Dolls)
13. The Scott Amendola Band - "Masters Of War" (Bob Dylan)
14. Carla Bozulich - "Pissing" (Low)
15. The Geraldine Fibbers - "Yoo Doo Right" (Can)
16. Carla Bozulich - "Running Dry (Requiem For The Rockets)" (Neil Young)
17. Scarnella - "Times Square" (Marianne Faithful)

Any chance you could Leonardo this?

I don't have all those trax on my computer right now, maybe if I have the time this weekend I'll try and rip/upload what I need to. I haven't listened to Hello Voyager much lately but the Evangelista show I saw a couple months ago was awesome, I might have to see them again when they swing back through the area in a couple months.

Thanks. Even just the George Jones ones and "Hands on the Wheel" (which I'm assuming is different than the solo RHS one) would be great.

i'll just pop in here and say that the new Evangelista record is really, really good. Intense stuff.

yeah that "Hands On The Wheel" (and most of the other Fibbers c&w covers) are from What Part Of Get Thee Gone Don't You Understand?, except "He Stopped Loving Her Today," that's a live mp3 I came across.

I forgot about all this!

Evangelista was hot at their recent pdx show. Carla has my undying love dating back to the Ethyl Meatplow show I was fortunate to catch in '94.

Also caught Evangelista guitarist Ava Mendoza's project Mute Socialite (with Moe! Staino ex-Sleepytime Gorilla Museum) not long afterwards. Their track "Killing Time" gets stuck in my head for days and days.

I mean not long after the Evangelista show, not the Meatplow one...

i recently heard the evangelista song 'the blue room'. can anyone recommend songs/albums/material like this in carla bozulich's discography? her output seems pretty large and varied so i don't really know where to begin....

"The Blue Room" is the one song on the new album that features Nels Cline, and it's not too different from a number of previous Carla/Nels collaborations, mainly the Geraldine Fibbers' Butch, the self-titled Scarnella album and her live solo EP I'm Gonna Stop Killing. The Scarnella probably has the most stuff that's close to that particular song's vibe.

You guys know about the new one?

http://www.cstrecords.com/releases/cst061

i mentioned it in passing on the Rolling Nels Cline Thread and i saw Whiney blurb it on his twitter, but since the release date's still a few weeks off i have not heard it. excited, though, Hello Voyager was great.

There's a track up on that linked page - The Slayer! Sounds great.

Great news! Was only listening to Hello, Voyager again last night.

They were just devastating live.

I just discovered this record and I love it. Can anyone recommend anything recent that has a similar feel?

have you heard the the follow-up EP I'm Gonna Stop Killing or the Geraldine Fibbers' first album Lost Somewhere Between The Earth And My Home? those are probably the closest things Carla's done.

as for other artists, I'd recommend Eleni Mandell, probably starting with Miracle of Five (which Nels Cline also plays on)

Thanks for the suggestions. I've already been checking out Carla's other work. I'll give Eleni Mandella listen. I'm looking for more recent stuff.

new Evangelista is v good all around -

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/61OQ029JjtL._SS500_.jpg

thanks for bumping the thread! didn't know the album even existed before this morning and now i'm listening to and enjoying it

nice!!

yeah hey everyone else, it's streaming in full at the Constellation site -

http://cstrecords.com/inanimaltongue

also on spotify, which was a pleasant surprise

haven't given this my undivided attention yet, but after a couple of plays it sounded like their best one yet

I've always had to make an effort to get into her Evangelista material, but it's usually worth it. However, the first time I put on Lost Somewhere... I fell in love immediately. God, I miss the Fibbers.

yeah the Fibbers were so amazing that i'll listen to anything Carla does for the rest of her life, although sometimes it's hard to not keep comparing the new stuff to that bad. i like that Evangelista is very much its own thing now, though, i kinda never thought i'd see the day when she kept with the same project for 4 albums straight. Hello Voyager is definitely my favorite but this new one is good too.

Thoughts on Boy?

I think it's amazing. Her best work yet.

oh man, I didn't know this was out, thanks for reviving this thread!

'her best work' is a really really high bar to meet for me personally, but it's definitely good, feels like it goes off in a different direction from the Evangelista stuff that's kind of exciting and unexpected. "Lazy Crossbones" sounds like the immediate standout for me.

Boy probably deserves a thread of its own. People need to hear it. Drowned To the Light and Danceland are my standouts but there's really not a bad track on it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uOkCu_hbN_A

New album 'Quieter' is fabulous.

gotta hear this, big fan of evangelista etc

A Twitter comment the other month from Christina Carter about Evangelista and its brilliance made me realize that she really still hasn't gotten her due, has she. So for Shfl, I did this:

https://theshfl.com/guide/carla-bozulich

yayyyy

just did a relisten of the full Fibbers catalog and god damn is that some top tier stuff, Evangelista was next on my list!