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  • Headless Household
  • Label: Household Ink Records

Personel

Headless Household is: Dick Dunlap, keyboards Tom Lackner, drums, percussives, electronics Chris Symer, bass (except where noted) Joe Woodard, guitars How the Mighty Folly (for Claire Rabe) David Binney, alto saxophone Tom Buckner, tenor saxophone Nate Birkey, trumpet Lucidity Julie Christensen, vocal Sally Barr, violin Bill Flores, pedal steel guitar Before and After Tom Buckner, tenor saxophone Nate Birkey, trumpet David Piltch, bass ¾: The Road Glen Phillips, vocal Nicole Lvoff, harmony vox Sally Barr, violin Bill Flores, pedal steel guitar David Piltch, bass Fragments re: Chloe (Walk in the Park) (dedicated to the memory of Dr. Ron Faoro) In Wait Julie Christensen, vocal Tom Buckner, tenor saxophone David Piltch, bass Happy-Go-Sad (Headless Household) Serbian Ladybug Julie Christensen, vocal David Binney, alto saxophone Bill Flores, pedal steel guitar Sally Barr, violin David Piltch, bass December 28, ’08 Tom Buckner, tenor saxophone Micro Dikshion (Dunlap/Lackner) Dick Dunlap, keyboard Tom Lackner, remix, electronics I Love You, Too Joe Woodard, vocal Nicole Lvoff, vocal Tom Buckner, tenor saxophone David Piltch, bass Sally Barr, violin Bill Flores, pedal steel Humor (is the Language of the Desperate) Nate Birkey, trumpet Tom Buckner, tenor saxophone Searching Nate Birkey, vocal David Binney, alto saxophone David Piltch, bass My Beautiful Boy David Piltch, bass Nicole Lvoff, vocal Tom Buckner, tenor saxophone Bill Flores, pedal steel Songs by Joe Woodard (except where noted) Recorded and mixed at the Tompound, by Tom Lackner, August 2013 through March, 2015 (Except “December 28, ’08,” recorded live at Center Stage Theater, Santa Barbara, Calif., by Brad Spaulding, 11-28-11)

Track Listing

How the Mighty Folly Lucidity Before and After ¾: The Road Fragments re: Chloe (Walk in the Park) In Wait (Prelude) In Wait Happy-Go-Sad (Headless Household) Serbian Ladybug Micro Dikshion (Dunlap/Lackner) December 28, ’08 I Love You, Too Humor (is the Language of the Desperate) Searching My Beautiful Boy

Artist Biography

Now in its 37th year, the new music combo Headless slices across genres and pursues better living through eclecticism. The core group–Joe Woodard, Dick Dunlap, Tom Lackner, and Chris Symer–is the center of an expanding storm of ideas in progress and guests, including David Binney, Tom Buckner, Julie Christensen, Glen Philips, Nate Birkey and many others. To date, the albumography, on Household Ink Records: Headless Household (1987; vinyl), Inside/Outside USA (1993), ITEMS (1995), Free Associations (1999), mockhausen (2000), post-Polka (2003), Blur Joan (2005), and Basemento (2010), Balladismo (2015), ????? tba (2020).