Bluejeans & Moonbeams

Infobox Album
Name = Bluejeans & Moonbeams
Type = Album
Artist = Captain Beefheart

Released = 1974
Recorded = 1974
Genre = Rock
Length = 36:50
Label = Virgin Records
Producer = Andy DiMartino
Reviews =
*Allmusic Rating|2|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:8so20r5ac48j link]
* Piero Scaruffi rating-10|4 [http://www.scaruffi.com/vol1/beefhear.html link]
*Robert Christgau (B-) [http://www.robertchristgau.com/get_artist2.php?id=222 link]
*Unknown (mixed) [http://www.beefheart.com/datharp/reviews/moonrev.htm link]
Last album = "Unconditionally Guaranteed"
(1974)
This album = "Bluejeans & Moonbeams"
(1974)
Next album = "Bongo Fury"
(1975)

"Bluejeans & Moonbeams" is the ninth LP by Captain Beefheart, originally released in 1974. Despite its uncharacteristically mainstream sound the album failed to chart. Most observers consider the album to be the Captain's weakest work, leading fans to christen the line-up of the period the 'Tragic Band'.

The album does, however, have its influence: an early White Stripes EP entitled "Party of Special Things to Do" (2001) contains three Beefheart covers (including this album's opening track).

Track listing

ide one

#"Party of Special Things to Do" (Don Van Vliet, Elliot Ingber) – 2:48
#"Same Old Blues" (J. J. Cale) – 4:00
#"Observatory Crest" (Van Vliet, E. Ingber) – 3:32
#"Pompadour Swamp" (Van Vliet) – 3:32
#"Captain's Holiday" (R. Feldman, W. Richmond, S. Hickerson, C. Blackwell) – 5:43

ide two

#"Rock 'n Roll's Evil Doll" (Van Vliet, Mark Gibbons, Ira Ingber) – 3:20
#"Further Than We've Gone" (Van Vliet) – 5:31
#"Twist ah Luck" (Van Vliet, Gibbons, I. Ingber) – 3:22
#"Bluejeans and Moonbeams" (Van Vliet) – 5:02

Personnel

*Captain Beefheart - vocals, harmonica
*Dean Smith - guitar, bottleneck guitar
*Ira Ingber - bass
*Bob West - bass
*Michael Smotherman - keyboards, backing vocals
*Mark Gibbons - keyboards
*Gene Pello - drums
*Jimmy Caravan - keyboard, star machine
*Ty Grimes - percussion