Picking Through the Wreckage With a Stick

by Jim Shepard

Picking Through the Wreckage With a Stick cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 1995
  • Label: Anyway
  • Country: United States
  • Community rating: 3.51/5 from 4 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

The notoriously enigmatic Columbus, Ohio musician Jim Shepard delivers an intensely harrowing, completely fractured solo effort with 'Picking Through the Wreckage With a Stick'. The album violently juxtaposes deeply intimate, heavily lo-fi acoustic loner-folk directly with terrifying, highly abrasive industrial sound collages and tape loops. It stands today as a profoundly disturbing, highly revered document of absolute underground outsider music.

Genres

Descriptors: Lo Fi, death, dissonant, lo-fi, experimental, folk, spoken-word, male-vocals, noisy, witty

Tracklist

  1. Exile On Brown Street
  2. Treena's Strobe Light Party
  3. Dali's Lair (Excerpt)
  4. Quotients & Numbers
  5. Bingle Bangle
  6. Dusted
  7. A Streetcar Named Depression
  8. I Owe You Nothing
  9. Space Is Deep
  10. U.F.O.logy
  11. Guitar Solo With Right Hand Attached
  12. Too Personal
  13. Table For 2. Big Ashtray.
  14. Pull The Switch, Henry
  15. I Thought I'd Seen Everything
  16. Peter Tork
  17. El Fukko
  18. Fat John / Your Uncle Is Dead / Wreckage

Credits

  • Jim Shepard - primary artist, electric bass, guitar, vocals, lyrics by, mandolin
  • Leland Cain - bass, double bass
  • Bob Dickie - cello, double bass, saxophone
  • Ed Wilcox - drums
  • Paul Hazlett - drums
  • Rudy K. Smith - drums
  • Stacie McCloud - electric bass
  • Eric Svensson - music by

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