Playin' Possum

Infobox Album |
Name = Playin' Possum
Type = Album
Artist = Maureen Tucker


Background = Orange
Released = 1982
Recorded = Trash Records, Phoenix, Arizona
Genre = Alternative pop, Rock, Post-punk
Length = 39:58
Label = Trash Records,
Rough Trade
Producer = Maureen Tucker
Reviews =
*Allmusic Rating|4.5|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:xn8uak5k5m3b~T0 link]
Last album =
This album = "Playin' Possum"
(1982)
Next album = "Another View"
(1985)

"Playin' Possum" is the 1982 debut solo album by Maureen Tucker of The Velvet Underground. The album features a number of renditions of classic rock and roll songs, (such as the 1955 standard "Louie Louie", Bo Diddley's title song from his 1958 self-titled album and the Little Richard hit "Slippin' and Slidin'"), as well as renditions of more modern rock songs (including Bob Dylan's "I'll Be Your Baby Tonight" or The Velvet Underground's own "Heroin"). Tucker performs every instrument on the album and recorded it in her living room, dubbed "Trash Records".

Track listing

ide 1

#"Bo Diddley" (Ellas McDaniel) - 3:56
#"Heroin" (Lou Reed) - 8:49
#"Slippin' and Slidin'" (Richard Penniman, Edwin Bocage, Albert Collins, James Smith) - 3:18
#"I'll Be Your Baby Tonight" (Bob Dylan) - 3:18

ide 2

#"Louie Louie" (Richard Berry) - 2:42
#"Slippin' and Slidin'" (Penniman, Bocage, Collins, Smith) - 4:30
#"Concerto in D Major" (Antonio Vivaldi) - 3:47
#"Around and Around" (Chuck Berry) - 3:42
#"Ellas" (Maureen Tucker) - 6:01

Personnel

*Maureen Tucker - vocals, drums, guitar, saxophone

Release history

*Trash TLP 1001 (Original vinyl LP release)
*M.T.-1441 (white jacket German reissue)