Frustration Plantation

Infobox Album | Name = Frustration Plantation
Type = Album
Artist = Rasputina


Released = March 16 2004
Recorded = The Blah-Blah Institute, Threshold Music, The Mummy's Tomb
Genre = Alternative rock, cello rock
Length =
Label = Instinct Records
Producer = Joseph Bishara, Melora Creager
Reviews =
Last album = "The Lost and Found, 2nd Edition" (2003)
This album = "Frustration Plantation"
(2004)
Next album = "A Radical Recital "
(2005) |

"Frustration Plantation", the fourth studio album recorded by cello-dominated rock group Rasputina, was released by Instinct Records on March 16, 2004. While not exactly a concept album, "Frustration Plantation" does have many songs darkly relating to women's lives in the Old South.

Track listing

All songs written by Melora Creager unless otherwise noted.
#"Doomsday Averted" – 2:34
#"Secret Message" – 3:16
#"Possum of the Grotto" – 2:56
#"If Your Kisses Can't Hold the Man You Love" (Jack Yellen, Vivian Ellis) – 3:07
#"The Mayor" – 4:37
#"When I Count..." – 0:26
#"High on Life" – 3:31
#"Wicked Dickie" – 2:23
#"My Captivity by Savages" – 3:00
#"Saline the Salt Lake Queen" – 4:06
#"Oh, Injury" – 4:10
#"When I Was a Young Girl" (Leadbelly) – 1:36
#"Momma Was an Opium Smoker" – 1:52
#"Nov. 17dee" (Lyrics by Hollis Lane)– 1:08
#"Girls' School" – 5:29

Disc 2: Poor Relations in the Shed Out Back (Bonus)

# "Yellow Fever" (Frustration Plantation Out-take) – 1:27
# "Momma Was an Opium-Smoker" (Melora mix) – 1:57
# "November 17dee" (long version) – 3:34
# "Secret Message (Melora mix)" – 3:17
# "Crazy Swan" (Cabin Fever remnant) – 3:07
# "Sanchez" (Frustration Plantation sketch) – 0:55
# "Mr. Romberg" (from Lakme by Delibes) – 1:30
# "My Soul" (Traditional) – 0:30
# "Oh, Injury (reprise)" – 2:10

Credits

*Melora Creager – Cello, dulcimer, vocals, producer, engineer
*Zoë Keating – Cello, vocals, engineer
*Jonathon Tebeest – drums, percussion
*Joseph Bishara – Producer, drum programming, mixing, engineer
*Kenny Dykstra – Engineer
*Tom Baker – Mastering
*Hollis Willa Lane (daughter of Creager) - Vocals on track 14
*Symon Chow – Photography, typography, graphic realization