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Trout Mask Replica

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Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band
Trout Mask Replica

Reprise
2027-2

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1. Frownland (1:39)

2. The Dust Blows Forward ‘N The Dust Blows Back (1:53)

3. Dachau Blues (2:21)

4. Ella Guru (2:23)

5. Hair Pie: Bake 1 (4:57)

6. Moonlight On Vermont (3:55)

7. Pachuco Cadaver (4:37)

8. Bills Corpse (1:47)

9. Sweet Sweet Bulbs (2:17)

10. Neon Meate Dream Of A Octafish (2:25)

11. China Pig
(3:56)

12. My Human Gets Me Blues (2:42)

13. Dali’s Car (1:25)

14. Hair Pie: Bake 2 (2:23)

15. Pena (2:31)

16. Well (2:05)

17. When Big Joan Sets Up (5:19) 

18. Fallin’ Ditch
(2:03) 

19. Sugar ‘N Spikes (2:29) 

20. Ant Man Bee (3:55) 

21. Orange Claw Hammer (3:35) 

22. Wild Life
(3:07) 

23. She’s Too Much For My Mirror (1:42) 

24. Hobo Chang Ba (2:01) 

25. The Blimp (moustrapreplica) (2:04) 

26. Steal Softly Thru Snow (2:13) 

27. Old Fart At Play
(1:54) 

28. Veteran’s Day Poppy (4:30)


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Produced by Frank Zappa
Arranged by Don Van Vliet 
Drawings by The Mascara Snake
Zoot Horn Rollo: Glass finger guitar, flute Antennae
Jimmy Semens: Steel-appendage guitar
Captain Beefheart: Bass clarinet, tenor sax, soprano sax, vocal
The Mascara Snake: Bass clarinet & vocal
Rockette Morton: Bass & narration
Drumbo: Drums
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Engineered by Dick Kunc
Album Design: Cal Schenkel
Photography: Ed Caraeff/Cal Schenkel
Special electronic modifications on Captain Beefheart’s band equipment by Dick Kunc

Most recent in a long series of contract negotiations leading to an actual signing: Neil C. Reshen
CD design and restoration: Tom Recchion


All songs written by Captain Beefheart © 1969
Words & music copyrighted for the world by Beefheart Music Co. BMI


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Manta Ray

A Black and White
Hand groped in blue light
Under the moon scratched
A fingernail
Tipped off full rain to one side
Of heavens black top hat
God smiled, his black and white wings
Wet with tears of peach perfumed
With life’s perfection.

Don Van Vliet

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