Albums
Retreat To Camp Candy Temptation Island
The first album from the former Special Ed and the Shortbus highlights the band’s flexibility, moving between bluegrass, ragtime, oldtime, jugband, and Klezmer with ease, injecting humor and sharp witted commentary along the way.
1 Blues In The Bottle
2 Old Trash Can
3 Price Of Gas Blues
4 Pretty Polly
5 Enough Of You
6 Varshaver Freylachs
7 Bully Of The Town
8 Perugia
9 Everybody’s Doin’ It
10 Sell Your Babies
11 Hungarian Dance #5
12 Sleepover Party
Rats in the Kitchen
A collection of jugband, ragtime, klezmer, and Americana amalgamations.
1 Rats in the Kitchen
2 Der Muzinikal
3 I Want to Hold Your Ear
4 Come On In
5 Kitten Fistin’
6 Der Axelbulgar
7 Bye Bye Blues
8 Hidden Fistin’
Ground Beef Patrol
The country’s premiere twisted string band – bluegrass, oldtime, jugband, vaudeville, klezmer and more.
1 Russian Rag
2 World Is Spinning
3 Trouser Gravy
4 Paper Chase
5 Soft John
6 Underpants Rag
7 Dirty Baby
8 Bloodworm Sausage
9 Carolina
10 Drag Rag
11 Haecceity of Scrotus
12 Don’t Worry ‘Bout the Poor
13 Czardas
Downhill From Here
The Shortbus’s foray into the dirty side; with favorite tracks like “Man-Ho” and “T&A”, total Richmond poo-grass at it’s finest.
1 Sodo’s Song
2 The Ol’ Pen-Fifteen Express (xxxtended version)
3 I’m Not Paranoid
4 Man-Ho
5 Frankie and Johnny
6 Pony Express
7 Day at the Ocean
8 Dark Day
9 First Letter of Lance Cpl. Byron Hankshaw III
10 At the State Fair
11 In the Gravel Yard
12 Special Ed and the Shortbus
13 Rawlin’s Tone
14 Who Flung Poo?
15 F. the S.B.
16 Slow-do’s (Sight Returns)
Special Ed and the Shortbus Bluegrass Band
Special Ed and the Shortbus’s first release containing our more straight-ahead bluegrass and jug band music.
1 Too Many Words
2 Stillwaters
3 Maria
4 In The Pines
5 Going to New Orleans
6 Tomorrow
7 Brogan’s Breakdown
8 In the Gravel Yard
9 Only Day
10 Feel Like Growin’ Old
11 May Cheat Death
12 Little Maggie
13 Jefferson National
14 Hot Corn, Cold Corn
15 Ionic Attraction/June Apple
16 Salvation Army Blues
