What is this weird crap?

Songs the Wild Taters Sang is about songs you’ve never heard from albums nobody bought by a singer you probably never heard — Me! Retired journalist Steve Terrell.

Here, following an admittedly windy introduction, I’ll be publishing stories behind the songs from my early 1980s albums Picnic Time for Potatoheads and Pandemonium Jukebox.

There are stories behind each song, and, at the risk of sounding blatantly egotistical, I believe there’s enough here to interest casual readers, even those who were not among the chosen few who howled long with “Wolfboy” at The Forge in 1981 or screamed “ASSHOLE!!!” in the correct spot when I performed “Rock ‘n’ Roll Hell” a few years later.

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