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In 1996, the fine Thirsty Ear label -- never motivated by commerce, always driven by the need to issue the what was new, odd, and fresh, even if it is that rare freakish and fractured thing -- released Cubist Blues. It was the unholy union of future roots music wailer Alan Vega with a pair of terminal rock & roll outsiders in Ben Vaughn and Alex Chilton. Since almost everybody else in the indie and pop worlds were still wandering around in shock after the death of Kurt Cobain, almost no one took notice of this terrifyingly great record made in two consecutive dusk to dawn improvisational sessions at Dessau Studios on the Lower East Side of New York in December of 1994! Like the best of jazz when the cats in the "50s would just show up to see what would happen (more often than not, it did: check the Norman GranzJam Session albums and the Prestige All-Stars). 



1. Fat City
2. Fly Away
3. Freedom
4. Candyman
5. Come On Lord
6. Promised Land
7. Lover Of Love
8. Sister
9. Too Late
10. Do Not Do Not
11. The Werewolf
12. Dream Baby Revisited