Bozo (album)

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Bozo
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Studio album by
Released1991
Recorded1989 (1989)–1991 (1991)
Studio
Various
Genre Psychedelic rock, alternative rock
Length47:32
Label Shimmy Disc [1]
Producer Lida Husik, Kramer
Lida Husik chronology
Bozo
(1991)
Your Bag
(1992)

Bozo is the debut studio album of the singer-songwriter Lida Husik, released in 1991 by Shimmy Disc. [2] [3]

Contents

Critical reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
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MusicHound Rock: The Essential Album Guide Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svgStar empty.svg [5]

Option wrote that the "instrumentation and production here are the stuff of which demos are made, and the promising, disparate numbers ... end up sounding sadly uniform." [6] In 1996, The Village Voice called the album an "obscure [gem] of 1960s-inspired, punkily energetic, whispery songcraft". [7]

Track listing

All tracks are written by Lida Husik, except "Diamond Day," co-written by Jimmy MacCarthy

No.TitleLength
1."Bozo"2:46
2."Billboard"4:30
3."California Oregon"4:04
4."Diamond Day"4:15
5."Hitchiker"4:32
6."Hateful Hippy Girls"4:25
7."Halloween"2:42
8."Mom"3:56
9."Farmhouse"4:28
10."Snow"3:12
11."Up"5:04
12."To Virginia"3:31

Personnel

Adapted from Bozo liner notes. [8]

Release history

RegionDateLabelFormatCatalog
United States1991 Shimmy Disc CD, CS, LP shimmy 046
Europe1992CD, LPSDE 9040

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References

  1. "Releases". shimmy-disc.net.
  2. Greenberger, David; Robbins, Ira (2007). "Lida Husik". Trouser Press . Retrieved March 9, 2016.
  3. "Lida Husik | Biography & History". AllMusic.
  4. Fennessy, Kathleen C. "Lida Husik: Bozo > Review". AllMusic. Retrieved February 21, 2013.
  5. MusicHound Rock: The Essential Album Guide. Visible Ink Press. 1999. p. 569.
  6. "Reviews". Option. 42–47: 97. 1992.
  7. McGonigal, Mike (Apr 30, 1996). "Husikesque: Green Blue Fire". The Village Voice. Vol. 41, no. 18. p. 72.
  8. Bozo (booklet). Lida Husik. New York City: Shimmy Disc. 1991.{{cite AV media notes}}: CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) (link)