Sublime eclectic mayhem. That’s been my playlist project and musical life, one that begins with The Muppet Movie soundtrack and later involves performing hymns, death metal, surf, and bluegrass. I’ve played in theaters, tents, and basements, for multi-stage festivals and squirrel rodeos. I’ve written and recorded music for The Drunken Odyssey. Sublime eclectic mayhem. A warning and a welcome for joyous noise, for those navigating what Beckett called “this bitch of an earth.”

To hold and inhale
you until the sun’s stern finger
prods me awake.

The H Is O

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1. “Sally Goodin’” – Vester Jones
2. “Sex Rears” – Alex North
3. “Moon Gas” – Dick Hyman, Mary Mayo
4. “Poor Boy” – Leo Kottke
5. “Mr. Lonely Viola” – J. Spaceman, Sun City Girls
6. “DON” – Jon Appleton, Don Cherry
7. “Apostrophe’” – Frank Zappa
8. “Al’s Razor Blade” – Skull Snaps
9. “Grey Chair and Parrots” – Marilyn Cripsell, George Graewe
10. “Thunderball” – Tom Jones
11. “Him and Her” – Ornette Coleman
12. “Rothko Chapel 3” – Morton Feldman
13. “Ashtray Heart” – Captain Beefheart
14. “Sonata I” – Maro Ajemian
15. “Plague of Frogs” – Lake of Dracula
16. “Ditch Digger” – 16 Horsepower
17. “The Satellites Are Spinning” – Graham Connah Group
18. “Summer Kisses, Winter Tears” – Julee Cruise

Stephen McClurg (Episode 473) composes and improvises in Serenity Dagger, The Abdomen, and other projects. Along with session work for mid-Alabama singer/songwriters, he frequently collaborates with musicians across the state adding bass, guitar, and synths to friends’ recordings. He currently writes reviews for Horror DNA and is the substitute low end wrangler for Mobile-based punk rock band Future Hate. You can find out more about his work here.