Theme song for Tulsa's original family carnival sideshow troupe, The Crispy Family Carnival (www.crispyfamily.com). Written right after I joined the cast in 2010, recorded at home later on with drums & vocal assist from Gloria. (There's like 8 of each of us on the chorus.)

Make It Crispy

Spoiler alert: turning 40 didn't actually suck. I was actually looking forward to it for a long time in advance. This one's from "The Anarchist Fakebook" - you can stream the whole album free or buy here: http://www.acousticross.com/merch.html

And for the record, when I did turn 40, I turned 40 on stage, at my 200th gig, performing this very song. That also didn't suck.

Pushin' 40 Mid-Crisis-Life Blues

Studio version from "The Anarchist Fakebook." Geek love in a gender-non-specific package.

+3 Sword of Protection

Anti-Folk artist and recovering fat person from Ohio, based in Tulsa, Oklahoma since 1996: the Oklahoma Music Guide says Acoustic Ross was 'formed' in Tulsa, which is a nice way to put it. Aggressive but amiable, sardonic but sympathetic, sounding like a mix of early Barenaked Ladies and HBO-era Tenacious D with a very heavy dose of Tom Lehrer. Performing & recording solo since 1994, and fronted a hard rock band called Math Lab from 2004-2008 that sounded nothing like him. Pretty much the only source of Anti-Folk in Oklahoma, or at least the first person there to start throwing the word around as if people there knew what it meant. Performing since 2010 with the Crispy Family Carnival, a modern old-fashioned vaudeville sideshow, complete with glasswalking, sword-swallowing, and a number of other painful feats, in which Acoustic Ross is part soundtrack, part road manager, part MC, part comic relief, and occasionally part scared.  As of early 2016 he has played nearly 400 shows all over the U.S., and released four CDs, along with the obligatory smattering of singles and compilation appearances.