Slaughterhouse on the Prairie

Studio album by Buckethead

Released

January 30, 2009

Genre

Hard rock, avant-garde, experimental metal

Length

41:48

Label

Hatboxghost Music

Producer

Dan "Brewer" Monti

Buckethead chronology

Albino Slug
(2008)

Slaughterhouse on the Prairie
(2009)

A Real Diamond in the Rough
(2009)

Slaughterhouse on the Prairie is the twenty-third album by Buckethead.^[1] It features the songs "LeBron" and "LeBron's Hammer" dedicated to LeBron James on his 24th birthday.^[2] The songs were previously free downloadable songs from Buckethead's official homepage along with another song called "King James" from the album Crime Slunk Scene (2006), which also refers to the basketball player.^[3] The album includes another basketball related track, "Iceman", dedicated to George Gervin.

"Crouching Stump Hidden Limb" is most likely a play on the movie Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon while "Don't Use Roosts If You Raise Broilers" digs at the chicken meat industry.^[4] There's also two self-references: "Rack Maintenance Part 2" is the second part of a Kaleidoscalp track and "Goat Host" may be a follow-up to "Ghost Host" off Decoding the Tomb of Bansheebot (which itself was inspired by Haunted Mansion).

The name of the album was suggested by Bryan Theiss and the letters on the cover were taken directly from the book Little House on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder.^[5]

By the end of 2009, all copies of the album had sold (along with A Real Diamond in the Rough) without any repressings lined up by the label. TDRS Music requested that fans pre-order the album (with no definite release date) and that once a threshold had been reached, the album would be pressed. The same process was run for Buckethead's 2006 album Crime Slunk Scene. It was announced along with the release of the album Best Regards that the repressing would go ahead, although the level of pre-orders had not been as high as expected.

Track listing

No.	Title	Length
1.	"LeBron"	4:33
2.	"LeBron's Hammer"	3:43
3.	"Blood Bayou"	2:57
4.	"Iceman" (Tribute to George Gervin)	2:05
5.	"Don't Use Roosts If You Raise Broilers"	3:28
6.	"Robot Checkerboard"	4:28
7.	"Premonition"	2:42
8.	"Crouching Stump Hidden Limb"	3:08
9.	"Goat Host"	2:35
10.	"The Stretching Room"	3:11
11.	"Pumpkin Pike"	2:51
12.	"Collecting Specimens" (CD text for the track is "Home for the Hemorrhage")	2:46
13.	"Rack Maintenance Part 2"	3:23
Total length:		41:48

Notes

The drum track of the song "Don't Use Roosts If You Raise Broilers" is used on the song "Open Coffin Jamboree" from the 2009 album Forensic Follies.
The song "Robot Checkerboard" lends guitar and drum samples to make up the opening track from the 2009 album Forensic Follies.

Credits

Buckethead - Peck and tear out portions, guitar
Dan "Brewer" Monti - Production, bass and programming
Bryan Theiss - Artwork

References

↑ "TDRS music Store". Travisdickersonmusic.com. Retrieved 2012-03-09.
↑ Sports Illustrated, January 15, 2009
↑ "Welcome to Bucketheadland". Bucketheadland.com. 2008-12-30. Retrieved 2012-03-09.
↑ Meat-type Chickens - Often called Broilers
↑ Original Unused Slaughterhouse on the Prairie Cover

External links

Buckethead

Solo discography

Studio albums

Bucketheadland (1992)
Giant Robot (1994)
The Day of the Robot (1996)
Colma (1998)
Monsters and Robots (1999)
Somewhere Over the Slaughterhouse (2001)
Funnel Weaver (2002)
Bermuda Triangle (2002)
Electric Tears (2002)
Bucketheadland 2 (2003)
Island of Lost Minds (2004)
Population Override (2004)
The Cuckoo Clocks of Hell (2004)
Enter the Chicken (2005)
Kaleidoscalp (2005)
Inbred Mountain (2005)
The Elephant Man's Alarm Clock (2006)
Crime Slunk Scene (2006)
Pepper's Ghost (2007)
Decoding the Tomb of Bansheebot (2007)
Cyborg Slunks (2007)
Albino Slug (2008)
Slaughterhouse on the Prairie (2009)
A Real Diamond in the Rough (2009)
Forensic Follies (2009)
Needle in a Slunk Stack (2009)
Shadows Between the Sky (2010)
Spinal Clock (2010)
Captain EO's Voyage (2010)
Electric Sea (2012)

Pikes series

2010	3 Foot Clearance

2011	It's Alive Empty Space Underground Chamber Look Up There

2012	Balloon Cement The Shores of Molokai Racks March of the Slunks The Silent Picture Book

2013	Forgotten Library Propellar Pike 13 The Mark of Davis Pike 15 The Boiling Pond The Spirit Winds Pike 18 Teeter Slaughter Thaw Spiral Trackway Sphere Facade Telescape Slug Cartilage Pancake Heater Worms for the Garden Halls of Dimension Feathers Splatters Mannequin Cemetery Pearson's Square Rise of the Blue Lotus Pumpkin Thank you Ohlinger's The Pit Hollowed Out It Smells Like Frogs Twisterlend Pikes Coat of Charms Wishes

2014	Backwards Chimney Pike 43 You Can't Triple Stamp a Double Stamp The Coats of Claude Rainy Days Roller Coaster Track Repair Hide in the Pickling Jar Monument Valley Pitch Dark Claymation Courtyard Factory City of Ferris Wheels The Frankensteins Monsters Blinds The Miskatonic Scale Cycle Night Gallery Outpost Ydrapoej Footsteps Citacis Outlined for Citacis Grand Gallery Aquarium Hold Me Forever (In memory of my mom Nancy York Carroll) Leave the Light On Abandoned Slaughterhouse Assignment 033-03 Pike 69 Snow Slug Celery Closed Attractions Final Bend of the Labyrinth Infinity Hill Twilight Constrictor Pike 76 Bumbyride Dreamlands Pike 78 Geppetos Trunk Cutout Animatronic Carnival of Cartilage Calamity Cabin Dreamless Slumber Whirlpool Walk in Loset Our Selves Interstellar Slunk Red Pepper Restaurant The Time Travelers Dream Listen for the Whisper Pike 91 The Splatterhorn Coaster Coat Magic Lantern Northern Lights Yarn Passageways Pilot Polar Trench The Mighty Microscope In The Hollow Hills

2015	Sideway Streets Squid Ink Lodge Project Little Man The Moltrail Forest of Bamboo Weird Glows Gleam Collect Itself The Left Panel Wall To Wall Cobwebs Night of the Snow Mole Creaky Doors and Creaky Floors Herbie Theatre Glow in the Dark Marble Monsters Infinity of the Spheres Vacuum Elevator Pike 119 Louzenger Shaded Ray The Other Side of the Dark Scroll of Vegetable Rotten Candy Cane Along the River Bank Tourist Paint to the Tile Tucked Into Dreams Forever Lake Down in the Bayou Part Two

Extended plays

KFC Skin Piles (2001)

Special releases

In Search of The (2007)
Acoustic Shards (2007)
Bucketheadland Blueprints (re-release) (2007)
From the Coop (2008)

Videos

Demos

Giant Robot (1991)
Bucketheadland Blueprints (1991)
Grab Bag #1 (1995)
Grab Bag #2 (1996)
Grab Bag #3 (1998)

As Death Cube K

Dreamatorium (1994)
Disembodied (1997)
Tunnel (1999)
DCK (2007)
Monolith (2007)
Torn from Black Space (2009)

Notable songs

"Welcome to Bucketheadland" (1994)
"Binge and Grab (instrumental version)" (1994)
"Big Sur Moon" (1998)
"The Ballad of Buckethead" (1999)
"Somewhere Over the Slaughterhouse" (2001)
"Spokes for the Wheel of Torment" (2004)
"We Are One" (2005) "Botnus" (2005)
"Three Fingers" (2005)
Nottingham Lace" (2005) "Jordan" (2006)
"The Landing Beacon" (2009)

Bands and projects

Artists	Alix Lambert & Travis Dickerson Bryan "Brain" Mantia Brain and Melissa Reese Brain and Travis Dickerson Jonas Hellborg & Michael Shrieve Travis Dickerson Viggo Mortensen

Bands	Cobra Strike Colonel Claypool's Bucket of Bernie Brains Cornbugs Deli Creeps El Stew Frankenstein Brothers Giant Robot Gorgone Guns N' Roses Praxis Science Faxtion Shin Terai Thanatopsis Buckethead & Brain (Pieces)

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