Ice Cream for Crow
by Captain Beefheart & The Magic Band
- Type: Album
- Released: September 1982
- Label: Virgin
- Country: United States
- Length: 9:20
- Community rating: 3.87/5 from 6 ratings
Artists on this release: Richard Snyder, Cliff Martinez
Album Notes & Community Reviews
Don Van Vliet's final studio album before retiring to paint is a brilliant, jagged culmination of his profoundly unique musical vision. 'Ice Cream for Crow' features The Magic Band executing impossibly complex, angular rhythms behind Beefheart's surreal, gravelly poetry, creating a highly abstract, dissonant, and essential avant-garde blues-rock oddity.
Genres
Descriptors: avant-garde, dissonant, uncommon-time-signatures, experimental, bluesy, theatrical
Tracklist
Credits
- Captain Beefheart - primary artist
- The Magic Band - primary artist
- Richard Snyder - bass guitar
- Cliff Martinez - drums, shaker [shake bouquet]
- Phil Brown - engineer
- Michael Kent Rothman - photography by [back cover]
- Anton Corbijn - photography by [front cover]
- Don Van Vliet - producer, arranged by, vocals, harmonica, soprano saxophone, bass clarinet, words by, music by, written-by
- Gary Lucas - slide guitar [glass-finger guitar], guitar
- Jeff Moris Tepper - slide guitar [steel-appendage guitar], guitar
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