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.”

My nerves–sweetened by 
natural honey–so bad 
I don’t have to use
a catheter to make me cry.

Bladderjacked By the Cutullan Postman and Other Modern Calamities

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1. “Sweethearts Remember” – Jim Lauderdale
2. “Let the Good Times Kill (Live)” – Danava
3. “Love in Outer Space” – Secret Chiefs 3, Kronos Quartet, Trey Spruance
4. “Aspiring to the Sky” – Rich Ruth
5. “Cows Come Home” – John Glacier
6. “Tineacious” – Mark Dresser, Jerome Rothenberg
7. “The Center That Cannot Hold” – Replacire
8. “Serving the Fruits of the Infinitely Branching Multiversal Tree” – Pepe Deluxe
9. “Everybody Is” – Pepe Deluxe
10. “Help, I’m a Rock/Transylvania Boogie (Live)” – Frank Zappa, The Mothers of Invention
11. “R.I.P. (Rest In Pain)” – Cavalera Conspiracy
12. “Bandits” – Billy Cobham
13. “Go Dig My Grave (Live)” – Lankum

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.