Wig in a Box
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Wig in a Box | ||
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Studio album by Various Artists | ||
Released | 2003 | |
Genre | Compilation | |
Label | Off Records |
Wig in a Box is a charity tribute album featuring versions of songs from the musical Hedwig and the Angry Inch. It was released in 2003 through Off Records, and proceeds benefited the Hetrick-Martin Institute, which is the home of the Harvey Milk School, a school for gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender and questioning youth.
Follow My Voice: With the Music of Hedwig[1], a documentary on the school and the making of the album was released in 2006.
[edit] Track listing
- The Origin Of Love - Rufus Wainwright
- Angry Inch - Sleater-Kinney and Fred Schneider of The B-52's
- The Long Grift - They Might Be Giants
- Sugar Daddy - Frank Black
- City Of Women - Robyn Hitchcock
- Freaks - Imperial Teen
- Wicked Little Town (Hedwig Version) - The Breeders
- Nailed - Bob Mould
- Wig In A Box - The Polyphonic Spree
- Milford Lake - John Cameron Mitchell and Stephen Trask
- Ladies & Gentlemen - Stephen Colbert
- Tear Me Down - Spoon
- Hedwig's Lament/Exquisite Corpse - Yoko Ono and Yo La Tengo
- Wicked Little Town (Tommy Gnosis Version) - Ben Kweller, Ben Folds, and Ben Lee, known collectively as The Bens
- Midnight Radio - Cyndi Lauper and Minus 5
- The Origin Of Love - Jonathan Richman