Sleep Dirt (instrumental)

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"Sleep Dirt"
Instrumental by Frank Zappa
from the album Sleep Dirt
ReleasedJanuary 19, 1979
Length3:20
Label DiscReet
Songwriter(s) Frank Zappa
Producer(s) Zappa

Sleep Dirt is an acoustic guitar duet featuring Frank Zappa and James Youman on Zappa's album Sleep Dirt .

The song's tone is described as intimate as Frank Zappa's sliding left hand gives it a special flavor. Zappa played a fast paced solo, while Youman played the accompaniment. [1] The track has some of the dreamy intensity of half-conscious perception as Youman falters at the end and Zappa asks, "you getting tired?"; "no, my fingers got stuck." [2]

References

  1. Page 348; Frank Zappa: "The Negative Dialectics of Poodle Play" by Ben Watson, St. Martin's Griffin, New York, 1995
  2. Norman, K. (1998). Poetry of Reality. Taylor & Francis. p. 121. ISBN   9780203986387 . Retrieved 2014-12-14.