Only in America

A 33-track collection loaded to the gills with really strange novelty and offbeat records galore. If you're into off-the-wall fare like Tony Burrello's "There's a New Sound" (aka "The Sound of Worms"), Terry Teene's "The Curse of the Hearse," the New Bangs' "Go Go Kitty," "the Okeh Laughing Record," and "Herter's Crow Calling Record" (part 1 and 2), then step right up to the plate because it doesn't get much more off the beaten path than this. Clocking in at a hefty 78 minutes, this disc brings together 33 examples of the most left-field recordings to make it to wax in the last few decades -- some like "the Okeh Laughing Record #1" -- with very long pedigrees going back to the 1920s and still in print as a 45 reissue some 30 years later. Great fun and wild-ass, provocative listening. ~ Cub Koda