Mink Stole - Do Re Mink (2013)

Tracklist

01. Female Trouble
02. Bang Bang
03. Thank You, Baby
04. Baltimore (feat. Jamie Wilson)
05. Waiting for the World
06. Born of a Restless Spirit (feat. Dave Chappell)
07. God, If Any
08. If You Were to Wake Up (feat. John Irvine)
09. Yours and so Am I (feat. Michael Raitzyk & Arty Hill)
10. What Can I Say After I Say I'm Sorry
11. No Nose Nanook
12. Sometimes I Wish I Had a Gun



Swingy, bluesy, rocky, poppy, a little bit sweet, a little bit sad, and plenty of attitude: no one category completely describes this album that has taken my Wonderful Band (Walker Teret, Skizz Cyzyk, Glenn Workman) and me nearly three years to produce. It really began more than 10 years ago when I first started singing in small clubs in Los Angeles. Many of the songs on the album are reworkings of songs I performed in my one-woman cabaret show "Do Re MiNK," which is why I kept the name for the CD. Not a songwriter myself, I've been lucky to work with terrific musician/songwriters, and several cuts on the CD were written by bandmembers Kristian Hoffman and George Baby Woods from the Los Angeles incarnation of my Wonderful Band, and Skizz Cyzyk from the Baltimore incarnation. "No Nose Nanook" is a song I performed way back in the early '70s with the amazing Cockettes in a show called Vice Palace. "Female Trouble" is a cool reworking of the title song (performed by the late, great Divine) of the 1975 John Waters film, in which I played the disturbed Taffy Davenport. "Born of a Restless Spirit" is a full on rock song. The others are tunes I have fallen in love with over the years. "Sometimes I Wish I Had A Gun," written by my friend and musical mentor Brian Grillo, was previously released in 2007 on the compilation disc "A Date With John Waters."

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