Prairie Home Invasion

Infobox Album | Name = Prairie Home Invasion
Type = Album
Artist = Jello Biafra


Released = March 24, 1994
Recorded = ???
Genre = Country Punk
Length = 62:00
Label = Alternative Tentacles
Producer = Marshall Lawless
Reviews =
*Allmusic Rating|3|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:5gjqeau24x87 link]
Last album = "Tumor Circus"
(1991)
This album = "Prairie Home Invasion"
(1994)
Next album = "Never Breathe What You Can't See"
(2004)

"Prairie Home Invasion" is an album released by Jello Biafra with Mojo Nixon in 1994. The title is a satire of the popular public radio program "A Prairie Home Companion".

Track listing

# "Buy My Snake Oil" (9:07)
# "Where Are We Gonna Work (When the Trees Are Gone?)" (3:12)
# "Convoy in the Sky" (3:33)
# "Atomic Power" (3:06)
# "Are You Drinkin' With Me Jesus?" (3:10)
# "Love Me, I'm a Liberal" (4:01)
# "Burgers of Wrath" (3:51)
# "Nostalgia for an Age That Never Existed" (4:56)
# "Hamlet Chicken Plant Disaster" (3:48)
# "Mascot Mania" (4:50)
# "Let's Go Burn Ole Nashville Down" (2:38)
# "Will the Fetus Be Aborted" (3:42)
# "Plastic Jesus" (4:31)

Personnel

* Sean McCarthy - Bass
* Mike "Wild" Middleton - Percussion, Vocals (Background), Drums
* Marty Muse - Pedal Steel
* Ted Roddy - Harmonica
* Stuart Sullivan - Engineer, Mixing
* Marshall Lawless - Producer
* Sandra Patyk - Vocals (Background)
* Amy Boone - Vocals (Background)
* Cindy Yates - Vocals (Background)
* Deborah Kelly - Vocals (Background)
* Louis Jay Meyers - Banjo
* Danny Barnes - Dobro, Guitar (Electric), Guitar
* Pete Gordon - Organ, Vocals (Background), Accordion, Piano
* Champ Hood - Fiddle
* Evan Johns - Guitar
* Don Leady - Guitar (Electric)
* Jello Biafra - Vocals, Photography, Main Performer
* Mojo Nixon - Banjo, Harmonica, Tambourine, Vocals, Guitar

Hamlet Chicken Plant Disaster

This particular song deals with a disaster at a chicken processing plant in Hamlet, North Carolina. The plant caught fire, killing 25 workers and injuring 40 after they were trapped behind locked fire doors.