The years covered are 1997 and 1998. He released the studio album "Moss Elixir" in 1996 and "Jewels for Sophia" in 1999. This falls in between. The live album "Storefront Hitchcock" was released in 1998, which is the soundtrack to a film of the same name. One songs here - "Let's Go Thundering" - is also on "Storefront Hitchcock." (Pretty much all the other songs on that are from previous albums.) Another song here, "Gene Hackman," would be a bonus track on his next album, "Jewels for Sophia." But this is a different version, done without an audience.
Two of the songs here are covers: "It Takes a Lot to Laugh, It Takes a Train to Cry" by Bob Dylan, and "Cirrus Minor" by Pink Floyd. I believe all the rest are originals.
This album is a bit short, at 37 minutes. But I believe this shows he had enough material to put out another album between his 1996 and 1999 albums (especially since I'm sure he had all sorts of other songs lying around). I'm not sure why he didn't put an album out at that time, except maybe he didn't want to confuse audiences by having an album to compete with "Storefront Hitchcock."
01 It Takes a Lot to Laugh, It Takes a Train to Cry (Robyn Hitchcock)
02 If We Hear Music (Robyn Hitchcock)
03 Loop the Loop (Robyn Hitchcock)
04 Cirrus Minor (Robyn Hitchcock)
05 Where Do You Go When You Die (Robyn Hitchcock)
06 Let's Go Thundering (Robyn Hitchcock)
07 Gene Hackman (Robyn Hitchcock)
08 Nothing but Time (Robyn Hitchcock)
09 Broken Heart (Robyn Hitchcock)
10 Fleshhead (Robyn Hitchcock)
https://www.upload.ee/files/15272402/RobynH_1997-1998_BeeManRayVariousSongs_atse.zip.html
For the album cover, I used a painting Hitchcock made to illustrate his song "Madonna of the Wasps." It depicts a wasp woman, not a bee man, but I figure it's close enough for horseshoes. ;) Maybe she's about to shoot a ray at the man to turn him into a bee.
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