Velvet Donkey

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Velvet Donkey
Studio album by Ivor Cutler
Released	1975
Recorded	1975
Genre	Spoken word
Length	47:03
Label	Virgin
Producer(s)	???
Professional reviews
All Music Guide (3/5) link
Ivor Cutler chronology
Dandruff (1974)	Velvet Donkey (1975)	Jammy Smears (1976)

Velvet Donkey is an album by Ivor Cutler, originally released in 1975 on Virgin Records. Cutler is joined on the record by Fred Frith who plays viola on several tracks, and by Phyllis King who reads six of her own poems and short stories.

[edit] Track listing

All tracks written by Ivor Cutler except where noted

Side one

1. "If Your Breasts" – 0:09
2. "I Got No Common Sense" – 0:34
3. "Useful Cat" – 0:27 (Phyllis King)
4. "Oho My Eyes" – 1:30
5. "The Dirty Dinner" – 3:34
6. "Yellow Fly" – 1:37
7. "Mother's Love" – 0:25 (Phyllis King)
8. "The Meadows Go" – 1:11
9. "Phonic Poem" – 0:47
10. "Life in a Scotch Sitting Room Vol. 2, Ep. 2" – 3:40
11. "Birdswing" – 0:49
12. "Nobody Knows" – 1:54
13. "Uneventful Day" – 0:31 (Phyllis King)
14. "Little Black Buzzer" – 1:53
15. "Bread and Butter" – 0:42

Side two

1. "A Nuance" – 0:35
2. "Go and Sit upon the Grass" – 2:09
3. "The Even Keel" – 0:37
4. "Pearly Gleam" – 1:54
5. "The Best Thing" – 0:22 (Phyllis King)
6. "Life in a Scotch Sitting Room Vol. 2, Ep. 7" – 3:34
7. "Once upon a Time" – 0:49
8. "There's Got to Be Something" – 2:01
9. "The Purposeful Culinary Implements" – 1:10
10. "Gee, Amn't I Lucky" – 1:34
11. "The Curse" – 2:07
12. "I Think Very Deeply" – 0:54
13. "I, Slowly" – 0:23 (Phyllis King)
14. "Sleepy Old Snake" – 2:33
15. "Titchy Digits" – 0:32
16. "The Stranger" – 6:00 (Phyllis King)