Ballad of the Exploding Whale, Waltz!, Three-Quarters of the fun!... one of those stranger than fiction events. This free fireworks happened on the Oregon coast almost 50 years ago.

(I am calling this album: The Ballad of the Exploding Whale! -and a bunch of other tunes I have buzzing around in my head hastily recorded in the hut back on October 19, 2019.)

Ballad of the Exploding Whale, Waltz!

Big-Shot, Braggin' Blues!...
Road to Vegas,  originally this tune is from the great,  Bob Moss & the Western Men "Tragic Tales of the West" circa; late 70s album.

(I am calling this album: The Ballad of the Exploding Whale! -and a bunch of other tunes I have buzzing around in my head hastily recorded in the hut back on October 19, 2019.)

Road to Vegas

Monkey Washing Kitty Cat is a tune from the Luni Troupe 2000 album called "3 Degrees of Bi-Pedia; Clowns, Monkeys and Aliens. --follow the link and you can hear the original recording. (thanks to my daughter, Kelley for the translation)


(I am calling this album: The Ballad of the Exploding Whale! -and a bunch of other tunes I have buzzing around in my head hastily recorded in the hut back on October 19, 2019.)

Monkey Washing Kitty Cat

Poops Rainin' from the Sky, was written way back in 1999, a Joe Judd and Bob Moss collaboration. Tells the tale of a mysterious plague of poo finding its way to the rooftops of many Utah homes and the valiant investigation that was launched, (and what better subject for a song? eh)

(I am calling this album: The Ballad of the Exploding Whale! -and a bunch of other tunes I have buzzing around in my head hastily recorded in the hut back on October 19, 2019.)

Poops Rainin' from the Sky

Ballad of Captain Nemo by Joe Judd and Bob Moss. Another stranger than fiction song about the antics of one, Eugene Nate Woodland, a colorful local Utah character, speed boat racer, and owner of a Salt Lake City Drive-In Theater. After the drive-in was demolished, Woodland murdered a contractor over a difference of taste, The hapless contractor unilaterally decides to  change the concept of Nemo's Atlantis dinner theater to instead be made into more profitable disco... Nemo gets his pistol and settles the score. He is immediately arrested and lands in Utah State Mental Hospital and later talks himself into prison. Originally this tune was recorded on the 1977 album, Tragic Tales of the West- Bob Moss and the Western Men. 


(I am calling this album: The Ballad of the Exploding Whale! -and a bunch of other tunes I have buzzing around in my head hastily recorded in the hut back on October 19, 2019.)

Ballad of Captian Nemo

Swingin' on the Hanapepe Bridge, by Joe Judd, 2009 about real and imagined adventures on sunny south side of the Hawaiian island of Kauai.  The song  was made popular by The Haole Boys, a Salt Lake City, hapa-haole hawaiian combo. 

(I am calling this album: The Ballad of the Exploding Whale! -and a bunch of other tunes I have buzzing around in my head hastily recorded in the hut back on October 19, 2019.)

Swingin' on the Hanapepe Bridge

Cord Dog Kid, is a little ditty I wrote as a teen back around 1970. I remember the inspiration for this one was a schoolmate's homemade comic strip.


(I am calling this album: The Ballad of the Exploding Whale! -and a bunch of other tunes I have buzzing around in my head hastily recorded in the hut back on October 19, 2019.)

Corn Dog Kid

Corn Dog Kid, by Joe Judd. recorded and groovy westernmen guitar solo, in 2017 by Dan Salini at his super-secret studio.

Corn Dog Kid (studio version)

Swingin' on the Hanapepe Bridge, by Joe Judd, 2009. performed here by The Haole Boys in Haole Dan's secret studio.

Shits Rainin from the Sky, 
Joe Judd & the Westernmen. recorded in Mike's secret Westernmen studio.