Chicken Vulture Crow

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Chicken Vulture Crow
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Studio album by
Released1988
Genre Folk punk
Label Doctor Dream
Swamp Zombies chronology
Chicken Vulture Crow
(1988)
Fink
(1989)

Chicken Vulture Crow is the first album by Swamp Zombies. [1] [2] It was released on record in 1988. [3]

Contents

Critical reception

Professional ratings
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The Daily Breeze likened the album to "the Kingston Trio gone hard-core punk". [4]

Track listing

  1. "Truly Needy"
  2. "Love Zombie"
  3. "Swamp Boy"
  4. "Open Up Your Eyes"
  5. "Pots and Pans"
  6. "Coffeehouse Ray"
  7. "Purple Haze" (originally by the Jimi Hendrix Experience) [5]
  8. "Zombie Jamboree" (originally by the Kingston Trio)
  9. "Chucha"
  10. "A Simple Desultory" (originally by Simon and Garfunkel)
  11. "Phobia"
  12. "Rudy the Magic Crow"

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References

  1. "Swamp Zombies Hitch Wagon to Debut Album". Los Angeles Times. July 3, 1988.
  2. Darling, Cary (June 26, 1988). "Riffs". Orange County Register. p. K25.
  3. 1 2 "Chicken Vulture Crow Swamp Zombies". AllMusic.
  4. Gnerre, Sam (July 8, 1988). "'Chicken Vulture Crow' Swamp Zombies". Daily Breeze. p. E10.
  5. Popson, Tom. "Cajun, Rock, Fpolk and More from the Indie World". Chicago Tribune.