The Amazing California Health and Happiness Road Show
by The Mermen
- Type: Album
- Released: 1 January 2000
- Label: Mesa/Bluemoon
- Country: United States
- Length: 1:13:41
- Community rating: 3.49/5 from 1 rating
Artists on this release: Vince Littleton, Ari Rios, Allen Whitman, George Nauful, Jennifer Burnes, Brenda Rotheiser, Mike Silverman, Jim Thomas, Steve Hall, Sarah Press, Joe Goldmark, Martyn Jones, Paolo Baldi, Randy Clark, Damien Rasmussen
Album Notes & Community Reviews
The Mermen's 'The Amazing California Health and Happiness Road Show' stretches surf rock into psychedelic, long-form territory, Jim Thomas's reverberant guitar leading Allen Whitman's bass and the drums of Vince Littleton and Martyn Jones. Produced by Thomas with Johannes Luley, it closes with 'Burn', a seventeen-minute excursion that abandons surf concision for post-rock accumulation.
Genres
Descriptors: atmospheric, instrumental, guitars, melodic, long-form
Tracklist
- Unto The Resplendent (5:40)
- White Trash Raga (5:21)
- Merry Go Round (4:40)
- Miki's Lush Beehive (4:36)
- Sway (4:43)
- Walking The Peach (4:20)
- Emmylou Rides Clarence West And Then South (5:30)
- To Be Naked And French Is Always Hard (4:46)
- Bare White (3:48)
- Little Stinky Kitty (3:49)
- Sponge Cookie (6:07)
- Heart Beatitude (3:37)
- Burn Intro (3:01)
- Burn (13:43)
Credits
- Grant Washburn - artwork [additional art]
- Aaron Marshall - cover [art]
- Trevor Cralle - cover [cover development assisted by]
- Vince Littleton - drums, djembe
- Randy Clark - sarod, guitar [2nd]
- Ari Rios - engineer, mixed by
- Brenda Rotheiser - art direction
- Dan Wool - engineer [additonal engineering]
- Mark Pistel - engineer [additonal engineering]
- Ryan Downe - engineer [additonal engineering]
- George Nauful - executive producer
- Isobel Melgarejo - graphics [graphic designer]
- Steve Hall - mastered by
- Sarah Press - photography
- Damien Rasmussen - recorded by