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Jesse Helms Busted With Pornography - The C&W Opera By Eugene Chadbourne,Eugene Chadbourne

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Eugene Chadbourne
Released 1996

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Brother Can You Spare A Dime?
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Weirdness #2
00:33
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songs

- 1
- Sex With The Sheriff
- 02:16
- 37 plays

- 2
- Too Damn Band
- 02:55
- 23 plays

- 3
- Today's Gun Permits
- 05:40
- 12 plays

- 4
- Hit On A Bubble
- 05:14
- 13 plays

- 5
- A German Chase
- 02:43
- 6 plays

- 6
- Little Tunnel
- 04:11
- 10 plays

- 7
- Lefty Medley
- 09:06
- 14 plays

- 8
- Weirdness #1
- 00:48
- 8 plays

- 9
- Mountain Men
- 04:03
- 12 plays

- 10
- The Mayor's New Law
- 02:14
- 24 plays

- 11
- I'm Your Neighbor
- 02:18
- 11 plays

- 12
- Weirdness #2
- 00:33
- 9 plays

- 13
- The Company You Keep
- 03:31
- 19 plays

- 14
- Take The Skinheads Bowling
- 02:19
- 91 plays

- 15
- Wrong
- 02:56
- 15 plays

- 16
- Remember Me
- 03:38
- 24 plays

- 17
- Brother Can You Spare A Dime?
- 07:01
- 9 plays

- 18
- No Reason To Quit
- 03:11
- 7 plays

- 19
- Perverts On Northridge
- 07:22
- 30 plays

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album review

This loosely connected songs on Eugene Chadbourne's Jesse Helms busted With Pornography make up a self-described "C&W opera." There is no plot to speak of, rather than just a theme of comically obvious corruption and obscene political commentary. The sound is vintage Chadbourne: an astute mix of avant-garde bluegrass, country, and wry protest music. Though the disc was recorded with a wide variety of musicians -- including the Violent Femmes' Brian Ritchie, former Frank Zappa drummer Jimmy Carl Black, members of Camper Van Beethoven, and many others -- the recording manages to hold together thanks to Chadbourne's skills as a bandleader. Mostly, the common thread that seems to bind is the artist's undeniable manic energy as he baits Jesse Helms, the conservative senator from Chadbourne's home state of North Carolina. Helms makes a good arch enemy and gives the music a pranksterish force missing from most protest music written since the 1960s. ~ Jesse Jarnow, All Music Guide