Hoboken Saturday Night
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| Hoboken Saturday Night | ||||
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| Released | 1970 | |||
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| Label | ATCO | |||
| Producer | Steve Duboff | |||
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Hoboken Saturday Night is the second and final album by the American band the Insect Trust, released in 1970.[1][2] The band supported the album by playing the Memphis Country Blues Festival, which was first organized by band member Bill Barth in 1966.[3]
Hoboken Saturday Night is regarded as a cult classic.[4] It was reissued in 2004, owing to the advocacy of Robert Christgau, who also contributed new liner notes.[5]
The album was produced by Steve Duboff.[6] It is in part a tribute to Hoboken, New Jersey, where the bandmembers lived due to the inexpensive rents, blue-collar vibe, and proximity to Manhattan.[7] Elvin Jones played drums on a couple of the tracks.[8] "The Eyes of a New York Woman" is a rerecording of a 1968 single by the Primitives, an early incarnation of the band; the lyrics were taken without permission from Thomas Pynchon's V.[9] Pynchon had sued the band, but allowed them to use the lyrics for the album release.[9] "Be a Hobo" is a version of the Moondog composition.[10] "Mr. Garfield" is a version of the song often credited to Ramblin' Jack Elliott.[11] According to Robert Christgau, the "blues scholars" in the band listened to "a lot of Arabic and Eastern European music" in the lead-up to the album.[12]
