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Artist:	CAPTAIN BEEFHEART
Title:	The Spotlight Kid/Clear Spot
Label:	REPRISE/WARNER (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$16.00
Catalog #:	WEA 26249

European pressing of this two-fer, featuring 1972's Clear Spot and it's followup from later that year, The Spotlight Kid. May or may not still be out in the US, why buy American when you can support the EEC? Critical mid-period Beefheart albums, chronologically following Safe As Milk, Strictly Personal, Trout Mask Replica and Lick My Decals Off, Baby. "In 1972, Warner Bros. Records producer Ted Templeman, already riding high with the Doobie Brothers and soon to be known as Van Halen's producer, decided to produce Beefheart. The result was Clear Spot, the first of two albums in this compilation, one of Beefheart's best-sounding records. It's also one of the rare occasions when Beefheart's music survived commercial staging without failure. Throughout the album, the band -- Zoot Horn Rollo, guitar, steel guitar and mandolin; Rockette Morton, rhythm and bass guitar; Ed Marimba (Art Trip), drums and percussion; and Oréjon (Roy Estrada ), bass -- cooks, Beefheart is in great voice and the sound is crystal clear. Later that year, Beefheart released the 2nd album in this collection, the self-produced The Spotlight Kid, with a band consisting again of Zoot Horn Rollo, Rockette Morton and Ed Marimba, joined by Winged Eel Fingerling (Eliot Ingber), guitar, in addition to Drumbo, Ted Cactus and Rhys Clark on drums." -- Pete Johnson/liner notes.

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