Cosmic Yucca Popquake, by Literary Vagabond

Cosmic Yucca Popquake

by Literary Vagabond

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1.	Cosmic Yucca Popquake 01:24	buy track
2.	Obscured View 02:57	buy track
3.	Hey Teacher, Maybe you Should Retire 01:59	buy track
4.	Corridor (feat. Kristi Copeland) 03:02	buy track
5.	Andrew Yang 01:30	buy track
6.	Taxidermied Owl 02:16	buy track
7.	Barbara, Let Your Hair Down 01:53	buy track
8.	Munch and Me 02:00	buy track
9.	2000 Miles Just to Wave 01:04	buy track
10.	Sit Back Down and Read Shakespeare 02:27	buy track
11.	I Don't Want Summer Anymore 01:38	buy track
12.	Hummingbirds 02:49	buy track
13.	Giddy Aloneness 00:23	buy track
14.	California Popquake (Ode to Prince) 01:15	buy track
15.	The Big Game 02:02	buy track
16.	Cappuccino for One 01:55	buy track
17.	The Inscribed First Edition, A Love Story 01:24	buy track
18.	Lost on Mt. Meeker 02:16	buy track
19.	Cosmic Ode to the Horseshoe Sculpture 01:33	buy track
20.	Maira Kalman 01:05	buy track
21.	Turmeric and Mint 02:22	buy track
22.	1975 (B) 01:36	buy track
23.	Movement and Gesture 01:01	buy track
24.	C-O-V-I-D 20 (A Baroque A Capella) 02:11	buy track
25.	Study, Work, Practice 02:05	buy track
26.	Jessica, Only Child, Illinois, Chicago 01:39	buy track
27.	I've Been Telling you not to Worry 01:38	buy track
28.	Carrots, Steak and a Stout 01:47	buy track
29.	Play Hüsker Dü on the Jukebox 02:02	buy track
30.	Trump Pináta 02:24	buy track
31.	Time Catches up to you 01:18	buy track
32.	Finished my Album 01:35	buy track

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I wrote 50 ninety-second songs this year, documenting in varying modes this historically awful year. 32 made the cut.

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released October 5, 2020

All songs written, performed and recorded by The Literary Vagabond. Thanks to Kristi Copeland for singing on "Corridor."

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Literary Vagabond Redondo Beach, California

This Peninsula High School English teacher started writing, singing songs 6 years ago after a challenge from students. He wrote "Santiago Calatrava Bridge" in homage to S & G's "So Long, Frank Lloyd Wright." It's still his most popular song, according to YouTube.

Topiary Anticipation is, by his accounts, his 22 LP. Most of his LPs have never been officially released.

Mantra: 2 minute songs rule ... more

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