Red Red Meat- There's A Star Above The Manger Tonight

Label: Jealous Butcher

Reissued 2014, Originally released 1997

With it's final album, Chicago quartet Red Red Meat completed a journey started in the early '90s, concluding a study in evolution, moving from it's shambolic blues rock roots into an experimental combo. THERE'S a STAR ABOVE THE MANGER TONIGHT is the sound of a band blooming even as it folds in - finding Tim Rutili (Califone), Brian Deck (Modest Mouse/Iron And Wine engineer), Ben Massarella (Califone/Orso), and Tim Hurley incorporating samplers, loops, and computers, marrying disparate threads of hip-hop, Krautrock, and dub to folk forms, stomps and blues.

Track listing:

1. Sulfur
   
2. There's a Star Above the Manger Tonight
3. Chinese Balls
4. Second Hand Sea
5. All Tied
6. Paul Pachal
7. Bury Me
8. Airstream Driver
9. Mecanix (From Cold Milk)
10. Quarter Horses (B-Slow)
11. Just Like An Egg on Stilts
12. Pachal Revisited
13. Welcome Christmas
14. Tin Hands & Lazy Motors
15. Milk for the Mechanics
16. Snow Shoe Waltz
17. Steal Away