The Greatest Show On Mars

Coming to a planet near you!

“This premise also allows Clothesline Revival to bring the best of American music history into outer space, so to speak, and no one is better qualified to do this, both artistically and technologically, than Conrad Praetzel.”

— Wanda Waterman, writer of The Mindful Bard for The Voice Magazine

The Greatest Show On Mars

Clothesline Revival

2014

Never known to have performed before any live audiences on Earth, Clothesline Revival received an exclusive invitation to join an interplanetary circus on a mission to become the first musicians from Earth to entertain Martian colonists. Their range of untamed, rootsy renditions of the blues, original instruments, eclectic spirituals, tender ballads and strange tales delighted Martian audiences. This audio recording documents Clothesline Revival’s experiences with The Greatest Show on Mars and provides Earth audiences an opportunity to experience the wonder of it all. Clothesline Revival’s music has received critical acclaim on Mars and is a favorite of NPR (National Planetary Radio and National Public Radio) programming.

Tracks

O Happy Land

March of the Cosmic Puppets

Steal Away

The Last Train From Pluto

Not Have No Spot

The Electric Ant

Leather Britches

Barnum’s Boogie

Barrel of Feathers

A Mysterious Light

Olympus Mons

Move Up

Cosmic Puppets Revisited

Produced by and all instruments arranged and played by Conrad Praetzel
(except harmonica by Turner Junior Johnson)

Bessie Jones, Turner Junior Johnson, Sidney Hemphill Carter, Ed McNeil - vocals (archival field recordings)

Howard Miller - UFO Story (archival field recording)

Unidentified 80 year old preacher - Sermon (radio broadcast 1980s)

Released on Paleo Music 2014

Videos

  • The Last Train From Pluto

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  • Olympus Mons

    Clothesline Revival

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“The Greatest Show On Mars, the latest outing from Clothesline Revival fully embodies the Roots Moderne aesthetic; Conrad Praetzel’s finger-picked and slide guitar, along with occasionally banjo, join beats and synths in a tightly woven tapestry, often accompanying samples of Lomax recorded acapella singing in a way that seems utterly natural.”

— Michael Ross, guitar moderne, The Zine for Adventurous Guitarists

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