Surgery 255

This week's episode features work across the career of one of my favourites: David Grubbs. There is recorded material that dates back to 1982 in his first band, Squirrel Bait, when Grubbs was just 15 years old... but for the purposes of this podcast we start a decade later with Gastr Del Sol. It was a batch of cassette promos from Drag City in the early 90s that introduced me to Grubbs and his then recording partner Jim O'Rourke with their album Crookt, Crackt, or Fly. It wasn't like anything I'd heard before, but I was so intrigued I followed it up by searching out his first solo album called Banana Cabbage, Potato Lettuce, Onion Orange released on the equally intriguing label Table of the Elements. Nearly 30 years later I'm still filling in blanks spots in my collection. Hope you enjoy this small sample that is sequenced in chronological order... and because of some odd snafu the track times were lost on the document, but the track progression should be obvious. Thanks!

Gastr Del Sol - The Serpentine Similar (Teenbeat)

David Grubbs - The Thicket (Drag City)

Gastr Del Sol - Camoufleur (Drag City)

David Grubbs - The Coxcomb (Rectangle)

David Grubbs - The Spectrum Between (Drag City)

Loren Connors / David Grubbs - Arborvitae (Hapna)

Grubbs / Gustafsson - Off-Road (Blue Chopsticks)

David Grubbs - An Optimist Notes the Dusk (Drag City)

Belfi / Grubbs / Pilia - Onrushing Cloud (Blue Chopsticks)

David Grubbs - The Plain Where the Palace Stood (Drag City)

David Grubbs - Prismrose (Blue Chopsticks)

David Grubbs - Creep Mission (Blue Chopsticks)

 

Track Listing

 

Gastr Del Sol - Eye Street 

David Grubbs - Swami Vivekananda Way 

Gastr Del Sol - A Puff of Dew 

David Grubbs - Avocado Orange 

David Grubbs - Two Shades of Green

Loren Connors / David Grubbs - Blossom Time 

Grubbs / Gufstafsson - Pumpkin Creek 

David Grubbs - Gethsemani Night

Belfi / Grubbs / Pilia - Hermitage

David Grubbs - Abracadabrant

David Grubbs - Nightfall in the Covered Cage

David Grubbs - The C in Certain