Even Cowgirls Get the Blues (John Cale album)

Even Cowgirls Get the Blues
Live album by John Cale
Released 1987
Recorded 1978 and 1979
Genre Rock
Language English
Label ROIR
Producer John Cale
John Cale chronology

Artificial Intelligence
(1985)
Even Cowgirls Get the Blues
(1987)
Words for the Dying
(1989)
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Even Cowgirls Get the Blues is the third live album by Welsh musician John Cale. It was originally released on LP in 1986 and then later reissued on cassette in 1987 with a different cover and drastically altered track listing. In 1991 it was reissued on CD with a third cover design, but with contents identical to the cassette edition. It was recorded in CBGB club in New York between 1978 and 1979 with three former members of Patti Smith Group, bassist Ivan Kral, keyboardist Bruce Brody and drummer Jay Dee Daugherty. The LP version contains different track listing than CD.

Track listing

CD version

  1. "Dance of the Seven Veils"
  2. "Helen of Troy"
  3. "Casey at the Bat"
  4. "Even Cowgirls Get the Blues"
  5. "Don't Know Why She Came"
  6. "Somebody Should Have Told Her"
  7. "Decade"
  8. "Magic & Lies"

LP version

Side A
  1. "Dance of the Seven Veils"
  2. "Helen of Troy"
  3. "Casey at the Bat"
  4. "Even Cowgirls Get the Blues"
  5. "Jack the Ripper at the Moulin Rouge"
Side B
  1. "Dead or Alive"
  2. "Somebody Should Have Told Her"
  3. "Instrumental for New Years 1980" ("Decade")
  4. "Magic & Lies"
  5. "Memphis"

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References

  1. Thompson, Dave. "Even Cowgirls Get the Blues". Allmusic. Retrieved 20 September 2013.