Mercurial
Covers from 1898 to 1982, recorded live to two-track tape.  No overdubs, no tricks, just real music played by one of the best line-ups in Spankers’ history.

 “At their most audacious when they mix genres big-time, this nouveau jug band from Austin T-X outdoes itself.” —Robert Christgau, The Village Voice

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Digga Digga Doo

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Paul Revere

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D.R.I.N.K.

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Since I Met You Baby

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Shine On Harvest Moon

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Got My Mojo Workin'

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Some of These Days

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Dance This Mess Around

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TV Party

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Hick Hop

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Tight Like That

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Sugar in My Bowl

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Going Up to the Country, Paint My Mailbox Blue

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It's a Sin to Tell a Lie

My Favorite Record
Declaring that the best music is funny, joyful, moving and adventurous, the world’s greatest all-acoustic band loaded the album with musical and lyrical references to their favorite records.  A beautifully produced studio album containing many of the Spankers’ most enduring songs.

 “Armed with the best brace of originals in their career, Austin’s acoustic iconoclasts make a record that moves them far beyond anything so restrictive as ‘genre’.”  —Michael Toland, Texas Music Magazine

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Monkey Rag

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Antifreeze

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Breathin'

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Whatever

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Mountain Town

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Wingless Angels

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Smile

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Wammo's Blues

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Insane Asylum

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The Minor Waltz

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No Song Sad Enough

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My Favorite Record

Spanker Madness
A tour-de-force exposition of the thrills of earthly vices, as only the Spankers can present them.

 “Explores the wide significance in our culture of drugs and their use – from the celebration of beer to a scathing critique of America’s war on drugs.  As for the music, it careens and swings like a drunken sailor.  This could be their musically most addictive recording to date.”  —Dirty Linen

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High as You Can Be

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Beer

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Blade of Grass

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Take the Heat

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Winning the War on Drugs

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Wake and Bake

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interlude

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Knock Myself Out

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Amsterdam

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Pakalolo Baby

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Getting' High

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It's Dry Down Here

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Orion

Hot Lunch
This 1999 classic is back in print after years of unavailability!   A beautiful, rocking, and rollicking unplugged beer-and-pot party populated with the most unpretentious, heartbreaking characters you’re ever likely to meet.

“Cross Django Reinhardt with Dan Hicks and the Hot Licks and you might come up with the oddly effective mix of jazz and vaudeville that the Asylum Street Spankers purvey…” —Detroit Metro Times

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Cakewalk

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I Don't Wanna

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Trippin' Over You

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U.F.O. Attack

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If I Were You

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Colonel Josh's B.B.Q.

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Hot Lunch

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Blue Prelude

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Smells Like Thirty Something

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Fanny

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Island Angel

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A Smo-o-oth One

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Bijou

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Sad Bomber

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New Jazz Fiddle

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Asylum Street Blues

Spanks for the Memories
This is the one that started it all!  Recorded to one microphone in an old pink house in East Austin, this debut album features the classic line-up that took the city by storm: Christina, Wammo, Guy, Stanley, Pops, John, Kevin, Jimmie Dean, Oliver and Josh.

“Consistently challenging in its influences.  Nothing officially ‘unplugged’ has ever sounded this much fun.” —The Austin Chronicle

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Intro

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If I Had Possession Over Judgement Day

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Superchief

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Song With No Words

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Intro

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Lee Harvey

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I'll See You in My Dreams

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Hesitation Blues

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Startin' to Hate Country

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Walkin' & Whistlin' Blues

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Shave 'em Dry

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Brazil

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Tradewinds

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Intro

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Funny Cigarette

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Hometown Boy

A Christmas Spanking
A refreshingly different, slightly irreverent take on holiday tunes.

 “Not afraid to take themselves seriously, yet preferring measured lunacy or unbridled insanity, they supply a spirited, witty seasonal album the whole family (well, most of them) will enjoy.”  —Hal Horowitz, Creative Loafing Atlanta

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intro

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You're a Mean One, Mr. Grinch

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Merry Christmas, Baby

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What Are You Doing New Year's Eve

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Zat You, Santa Claus?

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Baby, It's Cold Outside

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12.25.91

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Blue Christmas

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Mele Kalikimaka

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We Three Kings

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Silent Night

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Red Nosed Reindeer Blues

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Linus and Lucy

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Trim Your Tree

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The Christmas Song

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Far Away Christmas Blues