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Released: Jan 1, 1993
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The digital reissue of our 1990 debut,"(Why it's) Enormous Richard's Almanac"! At itunes, amazon,etc.


Here are some free things from the record:

Dogs With Their Heads Out the Window (mp3)

Timmy Todd (mp3)

River of Sadness (mp3)

"Has a naturalness you don't often hear"...David Greenberger (Duplex Planet)

"Lots of energy, humor, and lyrical ideas....wonderfully bizarre"...Spotlight Magazine

"It all breathes with an exuberant, haystack-hiding, mischievous boyish charm"...CMJ

"funny as fuck"...New York Press

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Buy "Walker with his head down" (1993) using any of the below links. Also some free downloads below!..
Buy at iTunes Music Store

Buy at eMusic
Buy at Rhapsody
Stream from Rhapsody
Buy at Amazon MP3
More On This Album..


Head in a Hummingbird's Nest (mp3)

Gravy (mp3)

Creepy Part of Town (mp3)

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Buy "Crumbling in the rain" (1995) using any of the below links. Also some free downloads below!..
Buy at iTunes Music Store
Buy at eMusic
Buy at Rhapsody
Stream from Rhapsody
Buy at Amazon MP3
More On This Album..

Eleanor Roosevelt
"Short Sweet" (mp3)
from "Crumbling In the Rain"
(Hollywood Recording Studio)


Eleanor Roosevelt
"Short Life" (mp3)
from "Crumbling In the Rain"
(Hollywood Recording Studio)


Eleanor Roosevelt
"Full Pocket" (mp3)
from "Crumbling In the Rain"
(Hollywood Recording Studio)


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Enormous Richard/Eleanor Roosevelt

Free stuff at below address!!:
The 11-song Download "Almanac Extras"...songs we couldn't get onto the 23-song main Almanac reissue, including 4 classic cover tunes. Copy and paste the below address...click the download link at the "4shared" page. Free skuntry will be yours! !..

http://www.4shared.com/file/pf2eX4Ug/Almanac_Extras.html

Enormous Richardand Eleanor Roosevelt, two St. Louis-based folk/roots/rock type bands with mostly the same guys (we were Enormous Richard then around '93 we changed the name). Most active in the early nineties. Many of us continue to collaborate on various musical and other creative endeavors. There's even a new Eleanor Roosevelt record coming before long...
Enormous Richard:active from summer '89-mid'93, started as a goofy little project for some bored graduate students at Washington University in St. Louis. In its four years of existence it went through many permutations. One of these versions (the "ass pop" version ca. 1991) toured a bunch and had a devoted following...
E. Richard self-released one cassette and two cd's, never with the same exact band. In July 2010 we reissued the cassette, our 1990 debut, "(Why it's) Enormous Richard's Almanac", as a cd and download...
Eleanor Roosevelt was active from mid'93 to mid'95, had a steadier lineup and toured less than its predecessor. Its music was a little more refined and less goofy than Enormous Richard's. Though it was still full of humor and whimsy...
Eleanor Roosevelt released one 7" during its lifetime and contributed to a couple of compilations. We finally issued our two full-length records in 2005 and 2007 as limited cd runs and downloads(see links about those to the left)...
Our main site is enormousrichard.blogspot.com. Go there for more info and to hear more music...
Also, many ER guys are currently involved with an arts organization called Poetry Scores: as Eleanor Roosevelt ceased to be active, it evolved into a project/collective/field recording enterprise called Hoobellatoo, which evolved into Poetry Scores. Poetry Scores creates music, art, and film inspired by poetry. Some of the ER guys are heavily involved in that, especially the music part ( ER co-founder Chris King is also the main guy behind the filmmaking part). Cd's are available for these projects. Go to poetryscores.blogspot.com to find out more on that...
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And now....this is the "band members" section.....here's a pretty thorough account....probably more than you needed to know.


Enormous Richard l(summer '89-spring '90):
CHRIS KING: vocals
MARSHALL BOSWELL: acoustic guit., vox
JOE ESSER: Bass
ELIJAH SHAW: banjo, fiddle, other instruments, vocals
RICHARD SKUBISH: acoustic guit., vox
MATT FULLER:drums..
Enormous Richard Il (almanac lineup, summer 1990):
BOSWELL OUT; JOHN MINKOFF(elec. guit) in. Also Karl Mueller on bass for a couple gigs, but Esser is back when we record our debut cassette "(Why it's) Enormous Richard's Almanac" ..
Enormous Richard lII (first ass pop lineup, Sep-Dec. 1990):
SHAW and MINKOFF OUT;CHRIS BESS (accordion, farfisa) and KARL MUELLER(elec. guit) in...
Enormous Richard lII.1(ass pop cont:
As of early '91, ESSER OUT: JAY LAUTERWASSER(bass) in.
To review, the lineup for all of 1991 is:
KING vox
MUELLER elc guit
BESS accrdn, farf
LAUTERWASSER bass
SKUBISH ac. guit, vox
FULLER drums ..
Enormous Richard lII.2(ass pop and back to skuntry era, Jan. '92- June '92)
MUELLER OUT; The band performs sometimes elec. guitarless, sometimes with JOE ARMIN on elec. guit., sometimes with John Minkoff on elec. guit. It makes one record with Armin on guit ("Enormous Richard Answers all your Questions")and one with Minkoff on guit. Also Shaw returns at some point, gigs with these various permutations, and appears on the same record as Minkoff (the last E. Richard record, 'Warm Milk on the Porch")..
Enormous Richard lVAs of June '92, SHAW and MINKOFF back on permanent basis. We're a 7-piece...
Enormous Richard lV.1Oct. '92
BESS OUT (so we're back to the Almanac lineup except with Jay instead of Joe)..
Enormous Richard lV.2June '93-
SKUBISH OUT
To review, the lineup at this point is:
KING: vox, occasional guit
SHAW: banjo, fiddle, guitar, vox
MINKOFF: elec guit, occasional bv
FULLER: drums, occasional bv
LAUTERWASSER: bass
This lineup makes the record "Walker with his head down" in summer '93. By the time it's released, we've changed our name.
Also Lauterwasser doesn't make a summer '93 tour and LES BURNSIDE fills in...
Somewhere in the second half of '93 we renamed ourselves Eleanor Roosevelt...
Eleanor Roosevelt INov [?] '93-Winter [?]'94)..
Eleanor Roosevelt bassless(an undetermined span of time somewhere in the middle of '94)
Lauterwasser leaves somewhere in the first half of '94. The band is bassless. Not sure what we did. There was a session in summer '94 with Joe Esser back on bass and his brother John (?)Esser on acoustic guit. One of these tunes was released on 7" along with some "Walker" material as the "Head in a hummingbird's nest" EP...
Eleanor Roosevelt II(late '94-summer '95) JIM MCBRIDE, bass..
Eleanor Roosevelt III(summer '95)
MCBRIDE OUT; DAVE MELSON (bass) in.
This band didn't gig at the time. It was assembled just to record "Crumbling in the Rain" as the last thing we did before we stopped being a regular working band...
E. Roosevelt has reconvened a couple times since, with either Melson or Esser on bass...
Enormous Richard reunion gigs have featured the Almanac lineup...
King, Fuller, Minkoff, Shaw, and Melson have continued to work together, in various combinations, with many additional musicians, on various Hoobellatoo and Poetry Scores projects...
Esser plays bass on "Water, bread, and beer", the next Eleanor Roosevelt record, which was recorded in spurts between 1995 and 2001 and will be released (we hope) before the end of the current U.S. president's current term of office. ..

Influences:

The birds, the bees, the songs mothers hum to babies, The Stooges, William Shakespeare, The Mississippi River, The Hang Ups, the breaking of hearts, beer, Soda (but not, really, soda), William H. Gass, the clear skies of a brutally cold winter's day...

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