Crow (LP recording)

Author: Hughes, Ted

Published by Claddagh Records (CCT 9-10), 1973
2LP
Cover illustration by Barrie Cooke

This recording contains a sleeve note by Ted Hughes giving a rough outline of the story behind Crow which is ommited from the recording (though he frequently presented it during readings).

This is a different recording from the one published on tape in the 1990s, also with a slightly different sequence.

See also the Crow tape recording and Crow, the book.

Contents:

 

Side 1

• Two Legends (I+II)
• Lineage
• Examination at the Womb-door
• A Kill
• Crow and Mama
• The Door
• A Childish Prank
• Crow's First Lesson
• Crow Alights
• That Moment
• Crow Tyrannosaurus
• Crow's Account of the Battle
• The Black Beast
• A Grin

 

Side 2

• Crow Communes
• Crow's Account of St. George
• A Disaster
• The Battle of Osfrontalis
• Crow's Theology
• Crow and the Birds
• Criminal Ballad
• Crow on the Beach
• Oedipus Crow
• Crow's Vanity
• A Horrible Religious Error
• Crow's Nerve Fails
• In Laughter
• Crow Frowns

 

Side 3

• Magical Dangers
• Conjuring in Heaven
• Crow Goes Hunting
• Owl's Song
• Crow's Undersong
• Dawn's Rose
• Crow's Playmates
• Crowego
• The Smile
• Crow's Battle Fury
• Crow Blacker than ever
• Revenge Fable
• A Bedtime Story
• Crow's Song of Himself
• Crow Sickened

 

Side 4

• Song for a Phallus
• Apple Tragedy
• Crow's Last Stand
• Crow and the Sea
• Truth Kills Everybody
• Crow and Stone
• Fragment of an Ancient Tablet
• Notes for a Little Play
• Snake Hymn
• Lovesong
• Glimpse
• King of Carrion
• Two Eskimo Songs:
• I. Fleeing from Eternity
• II. How Water Began to Play
• Littleblood