Robyn Hitchcock - Dragonfly Me - Non-Album Tracks (2010-2011)

Here's yet another in my long series of Robyn Hitchcock albums. This is a stray tracks album, as opposed to an all-acoustic album or covers album, since I sometimes post those for him.

In 2013, Hitchcock released an album titled "There Goes the Ice." It's a collection of digital singles from 2010 to 2013. Since the songs on it actually came out in 2010 and each year after that, I decided to break it up and include the songs based on the years they were first released. Five of the songs here are from that.

Three more songs, "Pink Moon" (a cover of the Nick Drake song), "Copper Kettle," and "Thank You, Time Girl," are unreleased studio outtakes that somehow were made public.

The rest of the songs are from concert bootlegs. Some of them were made up on the spot. Hitchcock used to do that a lot, but he hasn't done it much since this time. What's interesting is that some of them, like "Magnesium" and "Lorenzo and His Mother," are actually played with a band. That's pretty impressive when the song is being spontaneously created in the moment. Those two songs were performed at the Largo club in Los Angeles. A talented musician, Jon Brion, hosts many concerts there, and is well known for being able to roll with the punches and play along to songs he doesn't know.

01 Halo Mary (Robyn Hitchcock)
02 Bellyfull of Arms and Legs (Robyn Hitchcock)
03 To Be Human (Robyn Hitchcock)
04 Comme Toujours (Robyn Hitchcock)
05 Wang Dang Doodle (Robyn Hitchcock)
06 Dragonfly Me (Robyn Hitchcock)
07 Copper Kettle [The Pale Moonlight] (Robyn Hitchcock)
08 Pink Moon (Robyn Hitchcock)
09 Thank You, Time Girl [Demo] (Robyn Hitchcock)
10 Violet Rain (Robyn Hitchcock)
11 Magnesium (Robyn Hitchcock)
12 A War Against Time (Robyn Hitchcock)
13 Lorenzo and His Mother (Robyn Hitchcock)

https://www.upload.ee/files/15122326/RobynH_2010-2011_DragnflyMe_atse.zip.html

For the album cover, I decided to go for the literal meaning route. Hitchcock's album covers are always interesting in an artistic and different way, so I figure this fits his style. I went Googling for dragonfly-themed art, and came up with this. I don't know who the name of the artist is. All I know is the title is "Dragonfly Art Nouveau Print Home Decor Paper."