This Is! Ralph Carney is an avant-garde and experimental studio album by American multi-instrumentalist, singer and composer Ralph Carney, released on March 25, 2003 by Black Beauty Records.

This Is! Ralph Carney
Studio album by
ReleasedMarch 25, 2003 (2003-03-25)
StudioRugbeaters' Studio (San Francisco)
Genre
Length59:53
LabelBlack Beauty
ProducerRalph Carney
Ralph Carney chronology
I Like You
(1999)
This Is! Ralph Carney
(2003)
Ralph Carney's Serious Jass Project
(2009)

Critical reception

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Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Robert Christgau     [1]

Music journalist Robert Christgau gave the album two stars, and called Carney "a Buckeye Hornman--not quite as funny as a Hoosier Hotshot, but sweeter ("Turkey Neck," "Jug Gland Music")."[1]

Track listing

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Side one

  1. "Jug Gland Band" – 2:32
  2. "Get Yur Bargain" – 4:52
  3. "Swamp Horse" – 2:22
  4. "Pele Mele" – 4:25
  5. "Ultra Bowl" – 1:49
  6. "Man Don't Come" – 2:21
  7. "Tis Sad" – 5:07
  8. "Marshall Allen Plan" – 1:26

Side two

  1. "Heckraiser" – 8:06
  2. "Cow Lap" – 2:44
  3. "March of the Annunaki" – 2:19
  4. "Turkey Neck" – 3:14
  5. "Hell Week" – 2:53
  6. "15 April 2002" – 12:43
  7. "Solitude" – 3:00

References

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  1. ^ a b Christgau, Robert. "Christgau's Consumer Guide". Retrieved 8 April 2021.