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Ivor Cutler  Main Performer

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1 Bicarbonate of Chicken Cutler :50
2 Filcombe Cottage, Dorset King :22
3 Squeeze Bees Cutler 2:24
4 The Turn Cutler :30
5 Life in a Scotch Sitting Room, Volume Two, Episode Eleven Cutler 3:54
6 A Linnett King :25
7 Jumping and Pecking Cutler :44
8 The Other Half Cutler :46
9 Beautiful Cosmos Cutler 2:10
10 The Path Cutler :40
11 Barabadabada Cutler 1:02
12 Big Jim Cutler 3:01
13 In the Chestnut Tree Cutler 1:29
14 Dust King 1:02
15 Rubber Toy Cutler 2:03
16 Unexpected Join Cutler :08
17 A Wooden Tree Cutler :12
18 When I Stand on an Open Cart Cutler 2:13
19 High Is the Wind Cutler :38
20 The Surly Buddy Cutler 1:26
21 Pearly-Winged Fly Cutler 4:16
22 Garden Path at Filcombe Cutler :41
23 Paddington Town Cutler :40
24 Cage of Small Birds King 1:34
25 Life in a Scotch Sitting Room, Vol. 2 EP.6 Cutler :18
26 Irk Cutler 3:09
27 Lemon Flower Cutler :23
28 Red Admiral King 1:02
29 Everybody Got Cutler :47
30 The Wasted Call King 2:08
31 Wasted Call King/Cutler 4:26
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Jammy Smears

Audio Compact Disc

Label: Virgin

Style: Comedy Rock

Jammy Smears

UPC: 077778716129

Release Date: 01/06/2004

Original Release Date: 01/06/2004

Number of Discs: 1

Tracks: [Bicarbonate of Chicken, Filcombe Cottage, Dorset, Squeeze Bees, The Turn, Life in a Scotch Sitting Room, Volume Two, Episode Eleven, A Linnett, Jumping and Pecking, The Other Half, Beautiful Cosmos, The Path, Barabadabada, Big Jim, In the Chestnut Tree, Dust, Rubber Toy, Unexpected Join, A Wooden Tree, When I Stand on an Open Cart, High Is the Wind, The Surly Buddy, Pearly-Winged Fly, Garden Path at Filcombe, Paddington Town, Cage of Small Birds, Life in a Scotch Sitting Room, Vol. 2 EP.6, Irk, Lemon Flower, Red Admiral, Everybody Got, The Wasted Call, Wasted Call]
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Stewart Mason

Ivor Cutler's final album for Virgin Records, 1976's Jammy Smears, is one of the best releases of his career. Kicking off with the jazzy piano tune "Bicarbonate of Chicken," a funny and bizarre dialogue with a waiter, the album runs through 31 brief songs, poems, and surreal short stories like the hilarious "Big Jim." About evenly split between recitations and songs like the catchy shaggy dog story "Barabadabada" and the oddly philosophical "Everybody Got," Jammy Smears features more of Cutler's piano playing than any of his albums other than 1967's jazz trio album Ludo. His trademark droning harmonium makes only a small handful of appearances. As on its predecessor, 1975's Velvet Donkey, Cutler's friend Phyllis April King reads five of her own poems and a short story, "The Wasted Call," on Jammy Smears, all of them based on life in and around a cottage in Dorset. Because most of Cutler's pieces this time out share the rural theme, with an episode of his ongoing Life in a Scotch Sitting Room, Volume Two centered around a family walk in the country and several poems and stories about birds, bugs, and other wildlife, King's contributions are much more smoothly integrated with the whole than they had been on Velvet Donkey. Cutler's usual morbid obsessions crop up infrequently, making Jammy Smears one of his sunniest and most playful albums. ~ Stewart Mason, Rovi