Corky's Debt To His Father

by Mayo Thompson

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Levrikon Great out-there late '60s folk. Reminds me of Dylan, but way more avant-garde, which is saying something. Favorite track: The Lesson

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1.	The Lesson 02:42	buy track
2.	Oyster Thins 06:04	buy track
3.	Horses 03:13	buy track
4.	Dear Betty Baby 03:52	buy track
5.	Venus In The Morning 02:33	buy track
6.	To You 02:52	buy track
7.	Fortune 02:14	buy track
8.	Black Legs 03:54	buy track
9.	Good Brisk Blues 03:11	buy track
10.	Around The Home 02:55	buy track
11.	Worried Worried 05:02	buy track

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This austere song-cycle is a collection of tunes addressing youth, sexuality and human morays in an utterly unique fashion. Barely released in its day (1970), Corky's remains one of the pinnacles of excellence in the career of Mayo and his Red Krayola.

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"I first heard the sudden unbelievable wave-rolling sound of this strange, acoustic, old time cartoon band singin 'I'm a student of human nature' in '94 in good ol' Memphis, TN. Played to me by a giant man with an exploding pillow of blond curls wearing overalls. Wot the fuck was this? I was 22 and getting a fast-paced indie rock education after dropping out of college mid-semester a few months earlier. Was I wasting my parents money when I called from the Blues City Cafe and told them I had moved across the country? Ah, yes it's true, I surely was. But here on the turntable was a suitable replacement for the out-of-state tuition throw to the breeze - a corduroy-professorial-erotic-swinger vibe pouring off a re-issued LP!? Who is this massively turned on man singing about Shakespeare? The picture of the man on the back said it all. I could not have imagined this existed at all. But wot does it sound like? To me, his record has sonic values of the 60's but sounds distinctively weirder than anything I've heard from that decade. And wot an incredible bit of luck there, on the decade's cusp." - Mike Donovan

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released June 20, 1994

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Mayo Thompson Los Angeles, California

Mayo Thompson is an artist best known for his work with
the psychedelic band, The Red Krayola.

He resides in California.

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