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MF6 - Creeping Charlie II: Clicking Tocks & Darking Bogs (1995)

by creeping charlie

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Back To The Magnet 02:15
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Creeping Thru Your Yard 02:38
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From Gramo's Kitchen: A Newspaper Chopping 01:41
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From Gramo's Kitchen: Conversation About Scissors 01:21
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From Gramo's Kitchen: 4th Of July 01:03
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From Gramo's Kitchen: Bright Costumes 00:48
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From Gramo's Kitchen: "That's Nothin'" 00:31
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Floor Creaks 01:56
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searching through the attic for some kind of healing all i found are faded paintings notice how the wooden floor creaks and how the tin roof leaks trudge through the dark rain trudge through the dark rain trudge through the dark rain trudge through the dark rain...
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Trudge Thru The Dark Rain 00:32
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4th Of July (Part II) 01:53
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Top 40 Everywhere 01:07
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thewashingmachinethemesong (for Say) 01:00
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clumsystiffwalker 00:50
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i should just go to sleep 00:52
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the dryer 01:00
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"Now, That's My Game!" (checkers) 03:01
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Feedback At The End Of Every Song 00:50
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Ticking Clocks & Barking Dog (MF6 Side B) 00:50
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Backhoe (SQ11 Side B Squirrel Energy session tracks intro) 00:14
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20.
Every Hour Again 02:05
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21.
Endless Rows Of Corn 00:52
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22.
Does It Work 00:38
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23.
Gotta Travel On 01:44
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Sledgehammer, Static (cassette segue) 00:24
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25.
Laundry Room Conversation Theory 01:47
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Idea on 7-20-95: some guitar (unused improv from SQ11 session) 01:01
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about

"The note in the original cassette says "So, I couldn't sleep again...so here is another tape." Sounds about right." ~ creeping charlie

The incessantly barking dog and ticking clocks that caused the bulk of these recordings to be made up and recorded in the dead of night in the summer of 1995 comprised Side B of the original mighty feeble release. Now, you can play them on track#18 to help you stay up to make your own record.

The original 30 minute Mighty Feeble version of this tape - which is done entirely using the boombox/hand-held/boombox-to-boombox processes - was released in August of 1995 with the companion release, Greg Peterson's first 4-track excursion, Left For Bread. See his bandcamp for that fine record. grgptrsn.bandcamp.com/album/left-for-bread

Squirrel Adam did a lot better job at distribution for the subsequent Squirrel Energy Now! reissue, even getting some copies into the right hands overseas.

The live collective known loosely as Mad Dash For The Cake played some of these songs on stage in various cities. Creeping Charlie started out by being strongarmed to play at a Mexican house party in about 1991, was 1/2 of the fake bluegrass band The Bill Basset Band in 1992, and last performed Cotton's "Freight Train" and Crawford's "For Elizabeth Cotton", plus an improv excursion, as a duo with Kima at an Asheville, NC open mic near an actul North Carolina Chestnut Street, in about 2005. Charlie spent some time playing in a real bluegrass group at around that same time before moving back to the Midwest.
~ Michael Hoff, February 13th, 2022

credits

released March 4, 2022

Original cassette cover drawing by Mike after playing multiple games of checkers with a relative while in Omaha in Spring of '95. The old Navy vet said "Now, That's My Game!"

Recorded on Todd Clark's Panasonic RQ-J and various garage sale boomboxes on October 4th, 5th, and 7th in 1995...... mostly in the kitchen or wherever sounded good and felt right, and issued in August. At the request of Squirrel Energy Now! to expand the record for the SQ11 edition, new recordings were done in the same process on July 20th and Sept. 4th, same year. There were at least three different masters of this cassette, plus an unissued version collecting some later iowa city recordings. Some of these masters are unavailable, thus this may sound different to you than your 25+ year old cassette.

All songs written and recorded by Michael Hoff
except:
- Track #7 instant composition by Opal Mae Wilson and Michael in her kitchen at her house.
- Track#23 learned from a how-to-play-the blues instructional book. They are the same bells as played by The Rocker Boys on the first Laces cassette.

Digital transfer/mastering/design: Mike Hoff in Evanston, Feb. 2022.
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