CAPTAIN BEEFHEART AND HIS MAGIC BAND - IT COMES TO YOU IN A PLAIN BROWN WRAPPER (2LP)

Captain Beefheart And His Magic Band It Comes To You In A Plain Brown Wrapper On 2LP Set

Recorded in part as the follow-up to Safe as Milk, Captain Beefheart’s debut from earlier that year, the world-shattering material on It Comes to You in a Plain Brown Wrapper was rerecorded, truncated and issued without the Captain’s approval as Strictly Personal in 1968. Mastered directly from the original analog tapes and featuring a wealth of unedited takes never before on vinyl, Sundazed’s stunning gatefold double-LP release of this infamously enigmatic opus comes to you wrapped in a sharp outer sleeve bearing specially commissioned artwork by Frank Zappa/Straight Records illustrator Cal Schenkel replicating the album’s planned ’67 design. Included are rare photos and fascinating, exhaustive liner notes by Magic Band drummer John “Drumbo” French.

So here, then, is Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band’s second album of gloriously disjointed avant-rock/blues and free-jazz skronk, presented just as nature and the Captain intended. Even after more than 40 years, this music is still hopelessly ahead of its time or, as one-time Magic Band member Ry Cooder once described it, “right on time.”

Captain Beefheart It Comes To You In A Plain Brown Wrapper Track Listing:
 
1.  Gimme Dat Harp Boy
2.  Dirty Blue Gene
3.  Beatle Bones ’n’ Smokin' Stones Pt. 1 & 2
4.  Trust Us (take 9)
5.  Safe as Milk (take 12)
6.  Moody Liz (take 8)
7.  On Tomorrow
8.  Big Black Baby Shoes
9.  Flower Pot 
10. Korn Ring Finger
11. Safe as Milk (take 5)
12. Trust Us (take 6)
13. Moody Liz (take 16)