Prairie Home Invasion

Prairie Home Invasion
Studio album by Jello Biafra & Mojo Nixon
Released	March 24, 1994
Recorded	1994
Genre	Cowpunk
Length	62:00
Label	Alternative Tentacles
Producer	Marshall Lawless
Jello Biafra chronology
Tumor Circus (1991)Tumor Circus1991 Prairie Home Invasion (1994) Beyond the Valley of the Gift Police (1994)Beyond the Valley of the Gift Police1994
Mojo Nixon chronology
Horny Holidays! (1992) Horny Holidays!1992 Prairie Home Invasion (1994) Prairie Home Invasion1994 Live in Las Vegas (Pleasure Barons) (1994) Live in Las Vegas (Pleasure Barons)1994

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Prairie Home Invasion is an album released by Jello Biafra with Mojo Nixon in 1994. The title is a play on the popular public radio program A Prairie Home Companion and the Ice-T album Home Invasion. There was also a single released for "Will The Fetus Be Aborted?" which included an outtake from this album titled "The Lost World" and a parody of Billy Ray Cyrus's "Achy Breaky Heart" titled "Achy Rakey Heart" as B-Sides.

Track listing

1. "Buy My Snake Oil" - 9:07
2. "Where Are We Gonna Work (When the Trees Are Gone?)" - 3:12 (Darryl Cherney cover)
3. "Convoy in the Sky" - 3:33 (The Willis Brothers cover)
4. "Atomic Power" - 3:06 (Fred Kirby cover)
5. "Are You Drinking With Me Jesus?" - 3:10 (Lou and Peter Berryman cover)
6. "Love Me, I'm a Liberal" - 4:01 (Phil Ochs cover)
7. "Burgers of Wrath" - 3:51
8. "Nostalgia for an Age That Never Existed" - 4:56
9. "Hamlet Chicken Plant Disaster" - 3:48
10. "Mascot Mania" - 4:50
11. "Let's Go Burn Ole Nashville Down" - 2:38 (to the tune of Old Joe Clark)
12. "Will the Fetus Be Aborted?" - 3:42 (to the tune of Will the Circle Be Unbroken?)
13. "Plastic Jesus" - 4:31 (Ed Rush and George Cromarty cover)

Personnel

• Sean McCarthy - Bass
• Mike "Wild" Middleton - Percussion, Background Vocals, Drums
• Marty Muse - Pedal Steel
• Ted Roddy - Harmonica
• Stuart Sullivan - Engineer, Mixing
• Marshall Lawless - Producer
• Sandra Patyk - Background Vocals
• Amy Boone - Background Vocals
• Cindy Yates - Background Vocals
• Deborah Kelly - Background Vocals
• Louis Jay Meyers - Banjo
• Danny Barnes - Dobro, Electric Guitar
• Pete Gordon - Organ, Background Vocals, Accordion, Piano
• Champ Hood - Fiddle
• Evan Johns - Guitar
• Don Leady - Electric Guitar
• Jello Biafra - Vocals, Photography, Main Performer
• Mojo Nixon - Banjo, Harmonica, Tambourine, Vocals, Guitar

Hamlet Chicken Plant Disaster

This particular song deals with a disaster at a chicken processing plant in Hamlet, North Carolina. The plant caught fire, killing 25 workers and injuring 40 after they were trapped behind locked fire doors.

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