Wig in a Box

Wig in a Box

Infobox Album |
Name = Wig in a Box
Type = Album
Artist = Various Artists


Released = 2003
Recorded =
Genre = Compilation
Length =
Label = Off Records
Producer =
Reviews =
Last album =
This album = "Wig in a Box"
(2003)
Next album =

"Wig in a Box" is a charity tribute album featuring versions of songs from the musical "Hedwig and the Angry Inch". It was released in 2003 through Off Records, and proceeds benefited the Hetrick-Martin Institute, which is the home of the Harvey Milk High School, a New York City public school for gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender and even straight youth who have experienced homophobic and gender identity discrimination and violence at home and/or in other public schools and who are at risk of not completing their secondary education.

"Follow My Voice: With the Music of Hedwig" [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0800034/] , a documentary on the school and the making of the album was released in 2006.

Track listing

# The Origin Of Love - Rufus Wainwright
# Angry Inch - Sleater-Kinney and Fred Schneider of The B-52's
# The Long Grift - They Might Be Giants
# Sugar Daddy - Frank Black
# City Of Women - Robyn Hitchcock
# Freaks - Imperial Teen
# Wicked Little Town (Hedwig Version) - The Breeders
# Nailed - Bob Mould
# Wig In A Box - The Polyphonic Spree
# Milford Lake - John Cameron Mitchell and Stephen Trask
# Ladies & Gentlemen - Stephen Colbert
# Tear Me Down - Spoon
# Hedwig's Lament/Exquisite Corpse - Yoko Ono and Yo La Tengo
# Wicked Little Town (Tommy Gnosis Version) - Ben Kweller, Ben Folds, and Ben Lee, known collectively as The Bens
# Midnight Radio - Cyndi Lauper and Minus 5 (featuring Peter Buck of REM)
# The Origin Of Love - Jonathan Richman

History

In 2003, Chris Slusarenko of Off Records produced and released a charity tribute album which also included new material adding to the mythology of Hedwig. Slusarenko said that he fielded questions from Kim Deal of The Breeders about Frank Black, her former bandmate in The Pixies, with whom she'd had limited conversation since the band's breakup in 1993. They made contact soon after, and The Pixies reunited the following spring. Trask and Mitchell revisited an unfinished Tommy Gnosis song (leftover from the musical's development days) called "Milford Lake" (sung by Mitchell) and included it. The cd also features comedian Stephen Colbert reciting the spoken introduction to "Tear Me Down".


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