Bozo (album)
{{Infobox album
| name = Bozo
| type = Album
| artist = Lida Husik
| cover = Bozo (album).jpg
| alt =
| released = 1991
| recorded = {{Start date|1989}}–{{Start date|1991}}
| venue =
| studio = {{Collapsible list|title=Various|titlestyle=font-weight:normal;font-size:12px;background:transparent;text-align:left|{{Plainlist|
- Inner Ear Studios
- {{small|(Arlington, VA)}}
- Noise New York
- {{small|(New York City, NY)}}
}}}}
| genre = Psychedelic rock, alternative rock
| length = 47:32
| label = Shimmy Disc{{Cite web|url=https://shimmy-disc.net/releases.html|title=Releases|website=shimmy-disc.net}}
| producer = Lida Husik, Kramer
| prev_title =
| prev_year =
| next_title = Your Bag
| next_year = 1992
}}
Bozo is the debut studio album of the singer-songwriter Lida Husik, released in 1991 by Shimmy Disc.{{cite web |first1=David |last1=Greenberger |first2=Ira |last2=Robbins |url=http://www.trouserpress.com/entry.php?a=lida_husik |title=Lida Husik |publisher=Trouser Press |year=2007 |accessdate=March 9, 2016}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.allmusic.com/artist/lida-husik-mn0000824082/biography|title=Lida Husik | Biography & History|website=AllMusic}}
Critical reception
{{Album ratings
|rev1 = AllMusic
|rev1score = {{rating|3|5}}{{cite web |first=Kathleen C. |last=Fennessy |url={{AllMusic|class=album|id=mw0000088603|pure_url=yes}}|title=Lida Husik: Bozo > Review |website=AllMusic |date= |accessdate=February 21, 2013}}
|rev2 = MusicHound Rock: The Essential Album Guide
|rev2score = {{rating|3.5|5}}{{cite book |title=MusicHound Rock: The Essential Album Guide |date=1999 |publisher=Visible Ink Press |page=569}}
}}
Option wrote that the "instrumentation and production here are the stuff of which demos are made, and the promising, disparate numbers ... end up sounding sadly uniform."{{cite journal |title=Reviews |journal=Option |date=1992 |volume=42–47 |page=97}} In 1996, The Village Voice called the album an "obscure [gem] of 1960s-inspired, punkily energetic, whispery songcraft".{{cite news |last1=McGonigal |first1=Mike |title=Husikesque: Green Blue Fire |work=The Village Voice |volume=41 |issue=18 |date=Apr 30, 1996 |page=72}}
Track listing
{{Tracklist
| all_writing = Lida Husik, except "Diamond Day," co-written by Jimmy MacCarthy
| title1 = Bozo
| length1 = 2:46
| title2 = Billboard
| length2 = 4:30
| title3 = California Oregon
| length3 = 4:04
| title4 = Diamond Day
| length4 = 4:15
| title5 = Hitchiker
| length5 = 4:32
| title6 = Hateful Hippy Girls
| length6 = 4:25
| title7 = Halloween
| length7 = 2:42
| title8 = Mom
| length8 = 3:56
| title9 = Farmhouse
| length9 = 4:28
| title10 = Snow
| length10 = 3:12
| title11 = Up
| length11 = 5:04
| title12 = To Virginia
| length12 = 3:31
}}
Personnel
Adapted from Bozo liner notes.{{cite AV media notes |title=Bozo |others=Lida Husik |year=1991 |type=booklet |publisher=Shimmy Disc |location=New York City}}
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- Lida Husik – lead vocals, instruments, production (7–11)
;Musicians
- Brett Ackerman – guitar (5)
- Reverend Chester Hawkins – additional vocals (11)
- Melaney Holman – guitar and bass guitar (7)
- David Licht – drums (3–5)
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;Production and additional personnel
- Guy Dove – photography
- Kramer – production and engineering (1–6, 12), slide guitar (2)
- Michael Macioce – photography
- Don Zientara – engineering (3–5)
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Release history
| class="wikitable"
! Region ! Date ! Label ! Format ! Catalog |
| United States
| 1991 |rowspan="2"| Shimmy Disc | shimmy 046 |
| Europe
| 1992 | CD, LP | SDE 9040 |
References
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External links
- {{Discogs master |master=70500 |name=Bozo |type=album}}
{{Lida Husik}}
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Category:Albums produced by Kramer (musician)
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