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01. Legendary Stardust Cowboy - Paralyzed
02. Legendary Stardust Cowboy - Who's Knocking On My Door
03. Legendary Stardust Cowboy - I Took A Trip (On A Gemini Spaceship)
04. Legendary Stardust Cowboy - Down In The Wrecking Yard
05. Legendary Stardust Cowboy - Kiss And Run
06. Legendary Stardust Cowboy - Everything's Getting Bigger But Our Love
07. Legendary Stardust Cowboy - Hey Baby Of Mine
08. Legendary Stardust Cowboy - You Are My Gloria
09. Legendary Stardust Cowboy - Donna Plus Apollo
10. Legendary Stardust Cowboy - Paralyzed-80's
11. Legendary Stardust Cowboy - I Walk A Hot Wind
12. Legendary Stardust Cowboy - Radar
13. Legendary Stardust Cowboy - Fly Me To The Moon
14. Legendary Stardust Cowboy - The Ledge Talks
15. Legendary Stardust Cowboy - I Took A Trip (On A Space Shuttle)
16. Legendary Stardust Cowboy - Cast-Iron Apron
17. Legendary Stardust Cowboy - Cactus
18. Legendary Stardust Cowboy - Shadow Of A Tiger
19. Legendary Stardust Cowboy - Who's Knoking On My Door?
20. Legendary Stardust Cowboy - The Ledge Hollerin'
21. Legendary Stardust Cowboy - Brass Rainbow
22. Legendary Stardust Cowboy - The Ledge Hollerin' More
23. Legendary Stardust Cowboy - Mr. Songwriter
24. Legendary Stardust Cowboy - Dynamite
25. Legendary Stardust Cowboy - Crack Of Dawn
ARTIST
TITLE
Paralyzed!: His Vintage Recordings 1968-1981
FORMAT
CD

LABEL
CATALOG #
EM 1061CD EM 1061CD
GENRE
RELEASE DATE
11/6/2006

Killer presentation of the earliest recordings of this Texas hero, including all 4 of his singles for the Mercury label, cut in the late '60s. Also including unreleased tracks and the 1984 album, Rock-it To Stardum. Typically great EM Records booklet with old photos and lyrics, etc. It might be the weirdest piece of music ever committed to tape in Fort Worth. On "Paralyzed," an explosion of madness recorded at Sound City Studios on Camp Bowie Boulevard in 1968, the Legendary Stardust Cowboy thrashes away at a single guitar chord over a rudimentary two-beat, tunelessly bellowing indecipherable lyrics and whooping like an Indian in an old Western movie. In the middle of the song, there's a drum solo that sounds like someone dropping trash cans down a flight of stairs, followed by a blatting bugle. The pandemonium starts up again only to subside, like the end of an epileptic seizure. Hearing the song for the first time is disorienting, to say the least. Its impact is both hilarious and primal. Norman Carl Odam is an unlikely musical hero. That's the name the Lege's parents gave him when he was born, in Lubbock in 1947. But since high school, he's called himself the Legendary Stardust Cowboy. He has an extremely limited vocal range, has trouble singing in time, and can barely play his instruments. Yet, some surprising people like him. Chameleon-like British rocker David Bowie based his Ziggy Stardust character on the Lege after receiving a copy of "Paralyzed" from Mercury Records upon signing with the label in 1968. Bowie even covered Odam's song "I Took a Trip (On A Gemini Spaceship)" on his 2002 Heathen CD. Joe Ely, who grew up with Odam in Lubbock, has said that his old friend "might be the greatest jazz musician ever to come out of West Texas." Ely's claim sounds preposterous, but it's still indicative of a degree of bewildered admiration. As for Norman Odam, these days he works as a night watchman in a Santa Clara bank. His current band -- bassist Klaus Fluoride (formerly of San Francisco punk originators, the Dead Kennedys), guitarist Jay Rosen, and Meyers -- works regularly around the Bay Area and even played a show in France with punk-era figures Alan Vega, Lydia Lunch, and Sigue Sigue Sputnik. Odam's been featured in Songs in the Key of Z, Irwin Chusid's book on "outsider" music, and Lubbock Lights, a documentary about his homeboys the Flatlanders.