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Mo Beauty

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Released
  
October 20, 2009

Release date
  
20 October 2009

Label
  
Anti-

Artist
  
Alec Ounsworth

Producer
  
Steve Berlin

Genres
  
Indie rock, Folk music

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Recorded
  
2009, Piety St. Studios, New Orleans, Louisiana

Similar
  
Skin and Bones, Super Heavy Organ, All Kooked Out!, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, Some Loud Thunder

Mo Beauty is the debut album by Clap Your Hands Say Yeah frontman Alec Ounsworth. It was released October 20, 2009, on Anti- Records. In August 2009, Ounsworth released Skin and Bones as Flashy Python.

Contents

The title is the name of shop in the Tremé section of New Orleans, a photograph of which is on the album cover.

Track listing

  1. "Modern Girl (...With Scissors)"
  2. "Bones in the Grave"
  3. "Holy, Holy, Holy Moses (Song for New Orleans)"
  4. "That Is Not My Home (After Bruegel)"
  5. "Idiots in the Rain"
  6. "South Philadelphia (Drug Days)"
  7. "What Fun."
  8. "Me and You, Watson"
  9. "Obscene Queen Bee #2"
  10. "When You've No Eyes"
  11. "Dr. So and So" (iTunes only Bonus Track)
  12. "Big Microscope" (iTunes only Bonus Track)
  13. "Dim Wit Road" (iTunes only Bonus Track)

Personnel

  • Alec Ounsworth - Vocals, Guitar
  • George Porter, Jr. - Bass guitar
  • Stanton Moore – Drums
  • Robert Walter – Keyboards, B3 Organ
  • Matt Sutton – Baritone and Pedal Steel Guitars
  • Steve Berlin - Producer
  • Mark Mullins, Craig Klein, Greg Hicks, Washboard Chaz, Shannon Powell, John Boute, Al "Carnival Time" Johnson, and Meschiya Lake. - Various Instrumentation

    • Songs

    1Modern Girl ( With Scissors)3:45
    2Bones in the Grave3:25
    3Holy - Holy - Holy Moses (Song for New Orleans)3:36

    References

    Mo Beauty Wikipedia
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