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1997 studio album by The Geraldine Fibbers

Butch is the second and final studio album by American rock band The Geraldine Fibbers, released on July 1, 1997, through Virgin Records.

The album was recorded in December 1996 by John Goodmanson at The Sound Factory studios, in Los Angeles, California.

“California Tuffy” was released as a promotional music video and single. In the music video, Carla Bozulich uses a black cat puppet to lip synch the song while she and the band destroy furniture and set things on fire.

Background and recording

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(insert image of nels cline: MANY critical sources note how his style influenced sound of butch)

In 1995, the Geraldine Fibbers released their debut album Lost Somewhere Between the Earth and My Home, which was critically acclaimed but […] struggled to get airplay, no commercial success,(source) only sold 15,000 copies (damn).[1] During the band’s tours in support of the album, guitarist Daniel Keenan began suffering from tendonitis and stepped out […] Nels Cline filed in for much of touring […] Carla Bozulich met Cline during the recording of Mike Watt’s solo album Ball-Hog or Tug-Boat? (1995) uhhh yeah. […]

[…]

Keenan left band a month before recording of Butch … cline stepped in yeahh. co-wrote 2 songs but yeah influence apparent??

altough Butch was largely written by then??? Cline contributed to the writiing of “Seven or in 10” and the album’s title track; he composed the latter’s main riff during soundchecks.[2]

[…]

The Geraldine Fibbers recorded Butch at The Sound Factory in Los Angeles with producer Steve Fisk in December 1996.[3]

recorded in December 1996

mixed between March and April 1997 at Brooklyn Recording, Los Angeles by Sally Browder assisted by Ronnie Rivera

Violinist Jesse Greene shortly after album completion: replaced by …. […] Bozulich said that she would not have let Greene perform on album if she knew she was going to leave (source)

Butch […] im pretty sure bozulich likened the album to a playlist given its range/diversity […] viewed as leaning more towards rock than country according to seevral sources inc. cmj, wall of sound?? idk […] some said country, others disagreed.?? […] Bozulich cited “Folks Like Me” and “Pet Animal” as the only country songs on Butch,[2] an assessment conferred by ???? […]

Alberquerque Journal: “There is a myriad of elements at work. So much so, that putting a label on it would be doing its greatest injustice.”[4]

wilonsky likened album to a compilation album[5]

musical content

shorter songs because band struggled to get airplay for lost somewhere (that being said they still couldn’t get any airplay here lol)[6]

lyrics… genderrrr, sexuality, ambiguity,[7] death, morality, death […] friends who died of AIDS[8] […]

death of former Ethyl Meatplow dancer Jim Reva from AIDS and related stuff […] less about bozulcih’s past from lost somewhere but still personal

“California Tuffy”

“Toybox” […] [9]

“I Killed the Cuckoo”

“Trashman in Furs” […] tribute to / about former Ethyl Meatplow dancer Jim Reva, who died of AIDS […] there’s a source that explains the POV etc., and Houston Press also explains who Reva was etc […][5] Cline was instructed to make his guitar solo on the song to “sound like it was played by a very sincere but incompetent 14-year-old”.[10]#

“Swim Back to Me”

“Seven or in 10”

“Claudine”

“Folks Like Me” […] about aliens yall[11]

“Pet Angel” […] murder ballad?? […] William Tutton said his parts on the song were derived from “Mexican ranchera waltz music” (sic).[12]

“Butch” […] lyrics stream of consciousness in 10 mins.

“Arrow to My Drunken Eye”

“Yoo Do Right” cover by Can

“The Dwarf Song”

“Heliotrope”

Butch was released in the United States through Virgin Records on July 1, 1997,[13] and in the United Kingdom on October 6, 1997.[14] Sympathy for the Record Industry handled its release on vinyl.[13]

According to Bozulich, Virgin did not/refused to promote Butch at radio (single), instead choosing to promote The Verve and Blur before eventually relented during tour etc[15] […] On August 4, 1997, “California Tuffy” was serviced to radio stations as the album’s lead single,(source) and as a limited edition 7″ with “Folks Like Me”.[13][a] The song was edited for radio airplay without the Geraldine Fibbers’ input or knowledge, removing three bars from an eight-bar waltz, […] much to Bozulich’s chagrin.[15][16] (also: appears to be against contract since they had complete creative control over everything. that me saying that)[15]

music video directed by Bozulich.

initial touring affected by departure of violinist Jesse Greene shortly after album completion: replaced by …. band toured united states, europe etc throughout 1997.

song didn’t get much airplay and like Lost Somewhere Between the Earth and My Home, sold around 20,000 copies.[16][b] […] (for like six months) Virgin offered Bozulich a $350,000 advance to pursue a solo career / drop the rest of the Geraldine Fibbers; she said no, […][15] the label dropped the Geraldine Fibbers in February 1998, after which the band entered an indefinite hiatus.[17]

Butch received critically acclaim.[17](la weekly, idk about other sources mentioning critical praise) (that’s 20 reviews below to sort out)

Barry Walters of The Advocate […] [28]

Ned Raggett of AllMusic […] [18]

Matt Ashare of Artforum […] [29]

John Krewson of The A.V. Club […] [30]

Sydney Pokorny of The Boston Phoenix […] [31] (BTW. this is the person who founded Thee Geraldine Fibbers Shrine… so we may have to replace for COI)

(replace with) Robert Wilonsky, in the Houston Press, described it as being “among the finest CDs” of 1997, as well as “one of the oddest […], one of the most honest, one of the most disorienting, one of the most beguiling, one of the most enthralling” of the year.[5]

Monica Kendrick of the Chicago Reader […] [32]

Greg Kot of the Chicago Tribune […] [20]

Rob Brunner of Entertainment Weekly […] [21]

Richard Cromelin of Los Angeles Times […] [22]

Nick Johnstone of Melody Maker […] [33]

Neal Weiss of MTV News […] [34]

John Mulvey of NME […] [23]

Michael E. Ross of People […] [35]

James Coyne of Pitchfork […] [24]

Jason Fine of Rolling Stone […] [25]

Natasha Stovall of Salon […] [36]

Sarah Vowell of Spin […] [26]

Gary Graff of Wall of Sound […] [27]

Jason Cherkis of the Washington City Paper […][37] BY THE WAY. this is the guy who wrote the “unethically written exploitation piece” (ben is dead 1999). prolly wont cite unless descriptions because fuck you

Mike Joyce of The Washington Post […] [38]

Accolades / retrospective reviews

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Butch placed at number 22 on The Village Voice‘s annual Pazz & Jop critics’ poll for 1997,[39] and at number 37[c] on Addicted to Noise‘s poll of “Critics’ Top 100 Albums of the Year”.[40] The album was also ranked as the sixth best album of the year by the Los Angeles Times,[41] seventh-best by The Morning Call,[42] and seventeenth-best by Spin.[43] Wilonsky and Gary Indiana also included the album in their end-of-year lists for the Dallas Observer and Artforum, respectively.[44][45] In the 1999 MusicHound Rock guide, Brandon Barber […][46] In 2004, Lisa Weingarth of Punk Planet […] a “genre-bending masterpiece” …[47] Eels frontman Mark Oliver Everett praised the album in 2008, saying that he would “have [a] Hall of Fame built in it’s honor if I were mayor.”[48] In 2017, The Stranger included the album on its list of 70 albums made by women they believed “deserve[d] substantial listening time and, in good time, canonical status”.[49] Al Shipley of Vice called the album “great […] in its own right: its punk songs are more frenzied, its country songs are prettier, and its experimental tracks are more unpredictable”, though he considered it inferior to Lost Somewhere Between the Earth and My Home.[50]

Title Writer(s)
1. “California Tuffy” Carla Bozulich 3:17
2. “Toybox” Bozulich, William Tutton, Kevin Fitzgerald, Daniel Keenan 3:11
3. “I Killed the Cuckoo” Bozulich, Fitzgerald, Tutton 2:10
4. “Trashman in Furs” Bozulich, Tutton, Jessy Greene 3:43
5. “Swim Back to Me” Bozulich, Fitzgerald 3:25
6. “Seven or in 10” Bozulich, Nels Cline 2:26
7. “Claudine” The Geraldine Fibbers 2:19
8. “Folks Like Me” Bozulich 3:30
9. “Pet Angel” Bozulich, Tutton, Greene 3:39
10. “Butch” Bozulich, Cline 6:09
11. “Arrow to My Drunken Eye” Bozulich, Greene 2:32
12. “You Doo Right” (Can cover) Can 5:20
13. “The Dwarf Song” Bozulich 5:12
14. “Heliotrope” Bozulich 6:11
Total length: 53:10

Personnel per liner notes.[3] (the instrumentation is very specific so kepe LOOKIN)

The Geraldine Fibbers

Additional musicians

Production

  • Steve Fisk – production, mixing (14)
  • The Geraldine Fibbers – production
  • John Goodmanson – recording
  • S. Husky Hoskulds – recording assistant
  • Joe Zook – recording assistant
  • Sally Browder – mixing (1–3, 6–10, 12, 13)
  • Ronnie Rivera – mixing assistant (1–3, 6–10, 12, 13)
  • John Siket – mixing (4, 5, 11)
  • Carla Bozulich – mixing (4, 5, 11, 14)
  • Pain Son – mixing assistant (4, 5, 11)
  • Bernie Grundman – mastering

Artwork

  • Jesse McClosky – artwork
  • Denis Bozulich – art direction, design
  • Kate Gardner – photo
  1. ^ Smith, RJ (September 1997). “Blood on the Tracks”. Spin. Vol. 13, no. 6. pp. 96–100. ISSN 0886-3032.
  2. ^ a b Casey, Michael (August 22, 1997). “Country Flirtation”. The Record (Nightlife). New Jersey. p. 26. Archived from the original on January 13, 2026 – via newspapers.com.
  3. ^ a b The Geraldine Fibbers (1997). Butch (CD). Los Angeles: Virgin Records. CDVUS-133.
  4. ^ Hopper, Kevin (August 1, 1997). “Fibbers Foresee Next Trend: ‘Being Real’“. Albuquerque Journal. p. E12. Archived from the original on January 13, 2026 – via newspapers.com.
  5. ^ a b c Wilonsky, Robert (August 7, 1997). “Tell No Lies”. Houston Press. Archived from the original on January 13, 2026. Retrieved January 13, 2026.
  6. ^ Roberts, Michael (September 18, 1997). “The Truth About the Fibbers”. Westword. Archived from the original on January 13, 2026. Retrieved January 13, 2026.
  7. ^ Bowers, Gina (September 1997). “Carla Gets Butch”. Curve. Vol. 7, no. 4. p. 32. ISSN 1087-867X. Archived from the original on June 24, 2025. Retrieved January 13, 2026.
  8. ^ Sheppard, Ty (July 1997). “Fab Fibbers”. Genre. No. 50. ISSN 1074-5246. Archived from the original on January 24, 2000. Retrieved January 13, 2026 – via Thee Geraldine Fibbers Shrine.
  9. ^ Talvi, Silja J.A. (November–December 1997). “Carla Bozulich of The Geraldine Fibbers: California Tuffy”. ROCKRGRL. No. 18. ISSN 1086-5985. Archived from the original on January 25, 2000. Retrieved January 14, 2026 – via Thee Geraldine Fibbers Shrine.
  10. ^ Ashare, Matt (December 1997). “Nels Cline: Method Guitarist’s Double Life”. Guitar Player. Vol. 31, no. 12. pp. 31, 36. ISSN 0017-5463. ProQuest 222397068.
  11. ^ Broome, Eric (1997). “The Geraldine Fibbers”. The Bob. Archived from the original on December 1, 1998. Retrieved January 7, 2026.
  12. ^ Velez, Andrew (October 1997). “Fibbers’ Delight”. Out. Vol. 6, no. 1. Out Publishing Inc. p. 52. ISSN 1062-7928. ProQuest 2371029471.
  13. ^ a b c d e Morris, Chris (May 31, 1997). “Virgin’s Geraldine Fibbers Get Broader on ‘Butch’“. Billboard. Vol. 109, no. 22. pp. 14, 33–34. ISSN 0006-2510.
  14. ^ a b Anon. (October 4, 1997). “New Releases: Albums” (PDF). Music Week. Miller Freeman, Inc. p. 36. ISSN 0265-1548. Archived (PDF) from the original on July 9, 2021 – via World Radio History.
  15. ^ a b c d Romeo, Darby (1999). “Carla Bozulich”. Ben Is Dead. No. 30. pp. 43–44, 127. OCLC 26782693 – via Internet Archive.
  16. ^ a b McAlester, Kevin (July 23, 1998). “Bad Teeth”. New Times LA. Archived from the original on December 6, 1998. Retrieved January 3, 2026.
  17. ^ a b Boehm, Mike (August 12, 1998). “Honest Work”. Los Angeles Times. Retrieved January 6, 2026.
  18. ^ a b Raggett, Ned. “Butch – The Geraldine Fibbers”. AllMusic. Retrieved January 1, 2013.
  19. ^ Bertin, Michael (July 25, 1997). “The Geraldine Fibbers: Butch (Virgin)”. The Austin Chronicle. Archived from the original on April 2, 2017. Retrieved January 1, 2013.
  20. ^ a b Kot, Greg (July 18, 1997). “Geraldine Fibbers: Butch (Virgin)”. Chicago Tribune. Archived from the original on January 1, 2026. Retrieved January 1, 2013.
  21. ^ a b Brunner, Rob (July 11, 1997). “Butch”. Entertainment Weekly. Archived from the original on November 23, 2016. Retrieved October 31, 2016.
  22. ^ a b Cromelin, Richard (June 29, 1997). “The Geraldine Fibbers, ‘Butch,’ Virgin”. Los Angeles Times. Archived from the original on October 31, 2016. Retrieved October 31, 2016.
  23. ^ a b Mulvey, John (October 11, 1997). “The Geraldine Fibbers – Butch”. NME. p. 55. Archived from the original on August 17, 2000. Retrieved October 31, 2016.
  24. ^ a b Coyle, James. “Geraldine Fibbers: Butch”. Pitchfork. Archived from the original on March 4, 2001. Retrieved January 1, 2013.
  25. ^ a b Fine, Jason (August 7, 1997). “The Geraldine Fibbers: Butch”. Rolling Stone. No. 766. p. 60. Archived from the original on March 7, 2002. Retrieved October 31, 2016.
  26. ^ a b Vowell, Sarah (August 1997). “Geraldine Fibbers: Butch”. Spin. Vol. 13, no. 5. p. 112. Retrieved October 31, 2016.
  27. ^ a b Graff, Gary. “Wall of Sound Review: Butch”. Wall of Sound. Archived from the original on October 8, 1999. Retrieved January 3, 2026.
  28. ^ Walters, Barry (July 22, 1997). “Sex and Violins”. The Advocate. No. 738. Liberation Publications. p. 59. ISSN 0001-8996.
  29. ^ Ashare, Matt (September 1997). “Country Cousin”. Artforum. Vol. 36, no. 1. p. 29. ISSN 0004-3532. Archived from the original on January 14, 2026. Retrieved January 3, 2026.
  30. ^ Krewson, John (March 29, 2002). “The Geraldine Fibbers: Butch”. The A.V. Club. Retrieved January 3, 2026.
  31. ^ Pokorny, Sydney (August 22, 1997). “Strange Fruit”. The Boston Phoenix (Arts). Vol. 26, no. 34. p. 14. Retrieved January 14, 2026.
  32. ^ Kendrick, Monica (September 11, 1997). “To Hell and Back”. Chicago Reader. Archived from the original on December 2, 2021. Retrieved January 3, 2026.
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https://www.newspapers.com/image/579251667/?match=1&terms=minx%20online%20zine pre-release event????? huh????

https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-tampa-tribune/188848238/ mentions how bozulich thought fibbers could end here. and… then they did huh

http://www.stardustlanes.com/fibbers/ocweek.html references to gender abound. also (general comment): “you can’t read Fibbers songs as linear narratives. Symbolism is everything here.”

oc weekly

You might think from its title that Butch plays off the ‘lesbian country’ tag the Los Angeles Reader so graciously gave then but Bozulich says no, that’s not it at all (“That is our favorite joke though”). Maybe a better reading would be to look at all the so-called feminine imagery and see how it’s used in unexpected ways (like washing pills down with perfume in “I Killed The Cuckoo”, for one). “California Tuffy” (whose video Bozulich directed to “lovingly make fun of the genre of videomaking”) and “Toy Box” employ fruit and flowers as metaphors for sexuality. Nothing new there, right? Those are traditional symbols, since flowers are a plant’s sex organs, right? Except that when people usually symbolize sexuality in that manner, they do so to romanticize it. And though Bozulich has a talent for making almost everything seem pretty, she’s purposefully using the image to invert it (her husky voice comes in handy). “Pick the flower and it will wilt/ To die in bliss/ For a greedy lover’s kiss” she sings in “California Tuffy”, only to tell us soon after that “You will never get my heart.” Perhaps the clue lies in how she spits out the word “kiss” as if it were poison.

[…] with references / recurring themes of gender, sexuality, mortality and death (idk mann)

stammer

“Some of the stuff is about me, and some of it Butch is more about people ­ not anyone specifically ­ about people that suffer from alienation and suppression.”[1]

the bob

If the first album’s themes were largely based upon Bozulich’s notorious street-kid adolescence, Butch takes a more mature stance, dwelling upon death and mourning inspired by friends lost to AIDS. (One track, “Trashman in Furs,” is specifically written for the late Jim Reva, former dancer/stage performer with Ethyl Meatplow.) Bozulich admits that she’s a purely instinctual writer (asked to explain the title song, she replies, “Gee, I don’t know about that one — it was total stream-of-consciousness, written in like 10 minutes”), so amusingly, her ideas about subject matter can be quite uncertain.

“Wow, I’m not really sure,” she muses about “I Killed the Cuckoo.” “That’s one of those things where I just rattled off the words in sort of a poetic fit [laugh]. As I recall, I was in a bad mood. I don’t really know. The chorus goes, ‘Doesn’t her smile smack of starvation?/ Her legs outstretched toward her salvation/ In a word, it’s suicide, like everything else.’ So as far as I can figure, it’s probably about me. I’d say it’s probably about me making fun of myself for getting sucked up into something to do with sex that wasn’t good for me. But I’m just guessing — I could be totally wrong.

“It’s not just about that, anyway. It’s never just about me. When it’s about me, it’s generally about women. Not all women, but women who can relate to my words as they apply to themselves. A lot of times, people think that I’m talking about somebody else and often I am, like in ‘Seven out of 10’ or ‘Toybox.’ But in ‘I Killed the Cuckoo,’ I think I’m talking about myself, or talking about the way a girl could feel about herself.”

Got that? Or take “Folks Like Me,” an almost comically simple tune matched with a far less straightforward set of lyrics. Bozulich confides, “That song is fiction. It’s really kinda corny. I don’t usually tell people this, but that song is about if there was a planet that wanted to commence scientific observation of the Earth. So, they sent one of their top scientists down here and put that being into a male humanoid body, and dropped him down somewhere in like Nashville or Memphis with the dialect and everything. Let’s say they put a lot of their people down here, but that he’s the one we’re focusing on. And he’s somewhere in the South — I think he’s in Nashville, frankly. He’s got a little life and a cover story and everything, but really he’s just doing research. He falls in love with a local woman, but his body and his whole cover have an expiration date. He can’t stay down here for an unlimited amount of time — it’s like a temporary body. So the song is about not only that, but that his government or whatever doesn’t understand. It’s a sad song, about how he has to leave and she has to stay here.”

from minx[2]

“A lot of the album is inspired by my experiences with AIDS,” says Carla. This is reflected in the album’s title, as well. “Butch is a word that makes you think immediately about homosexuality, and I wanted it to do that.” By contrasting the word “Butch” with the image of a femme-y girl on the album cover, she has also set out to overturn stereotypes about what defines a woman as “butch.” “When I say ‘butch’ I’m not talking about a haircut. I’m talking about not being willing to lay down and take it, about being ready to fight, basically, and having it have nothing to do with what you look like . . . I think there’s a lot of strength and a lot of power in the music and that’s basically a word that reflects that.”

the gary indiana artforum thing prolly derived from feature here: https://www.artforum.com/features/top-ten-x-12-201675/ have a look at proquest again

time of sudden departure of greene? https://cplorg.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/p16014coll5/id/69033/

Kiki and Herb have covered “Seven or in 10”

https://web.archive.org/web/19990221234006/http://www.iuma.com/Strobe/14/html/BW13a.html

The addition of Nels Cline (pictured in 2014) […] smth guitarwork described by critics as influencing sound of Butch. (crop the image so its portrait)

copy over from talk page i guess

i hesitate severely with lyrical interpretation given everything that happened to le band

oh uhhh so this source explains what “minx” on pseudo.com is, since the source is kinda fucked up/poorly archived: https://www.nydailynews.com/1998/02/26/surfer-grrrls-women-are-making-the-net-their-own/

sources supporting critical consensus

https://www.newspapers.com/image/579228678/?match=1&terms=%22geraldine%20fibbers%22%20butch

la times, honest work

interviews

https://www.westword.com/music/the-truth-about-the-fibbers-5057846/

https://www.houstonpress.com/music/tell-no-lies-6570759/

https://web.archive.org/web/19991011062519/http://members.aol.com/lordouch/nelsgp.html (guitar player interview w/cline: “trashman”: check proquest for specifics. also, the transcription may or may not be incorrect…)

https://www.newspapers.com/image/497826951/ (mentions title song things)

https://archive.org/details/ben_is_dead_30/page/46/mode/2up?q=%22geraldine+fibbers%22 (talks about how virgin fucked up the promotion of “butch”)

https://archive.org/details/spex-1997-12/page/8/mode/2up?q=%22geraldine+fibbers%22 (idk how useful)

https://www.beermelodies.com/geraldine-fibbers-deconstruct-diversified-%E2%80%98butch%E2%80%99/

https://web.archive.org/web/19981206060441/http://www.penduluminc.com/MM/articles/gfib1197.htm

https://web.archive.org/web/19981201070444/http://users.deltanet.com/~gondola/articles/geraldine.html

https://archive.curvemag.com/s/curve-archive/item/281

https://web.archive.org/web/19980116005522/http://www.monsterbit.com/stammer/aug97/story1.html

https://web.archive.org/web/20000823223018/http://www.unomas.com/features/geraldinefibbers.html

https://web.archive.org/web/19990429010551/http://www.sfbg.com/Music/31/41/Music/index.html

https://web.archive.org/web/19990221111038/http://pseudo.com/minx/issue3/music1.html

album reviews

https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/pop-album-reviews-1236626.html

https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=2iwEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA13&dq=%22geraldine+fibbers%22+butch&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwip19GK0-iRAxW_VkEAHSPHM-gQ6AF6BAgOEAM#v=onepage&q=%22geraldine%20fibbers%22%20butch&f=false

https://web.archive.org/web/19980220015903/http://www.cmj.com/Newpicks/Jul97/gfibbers.html (cmj again, not the same as print version)

https://www.newspapers.com/image/157091811/

https://archive.org/details/greatindiediscog0000stro/page/760/mode/2up?q=%22geraldine+fibbers%22

https://www.jstor.org/stable/community.32630435?seq=33

https://web.archive.org/web/19981205122948/http://www.eonline.com/Reviews/Music/Leaves/0,6,462,00.html

https://archive.org/details/encyclopediaofpo0003unse_w1c2/mode/2up?q=%22geraldine+fibbers%22

https://www.newspapers.com/image/1000009208/

https://www.newspapers.com/image/177841130/

https://archive.org/details/1998peopleentert00cami_0/page/218/mode/2up?q=%22geraldine+fibbers%22 (adjacent to the uhhh people sept 8 1997 thing)

https://www.nashvillescene.com/arts_culture/review/article_4efc066b-0175-5350-8ba2-f0e7141d0161.html (eoy list for one authro)

https://www.nashvillescene.com/arts_culture/nothing-new/article_72f667ab-6fb9-5fcc-a0ab-052ece187840.html (another one)

https://web.archive.org/web/19990430005105/http://www.sfnewmexican.com/news1997/features_september/sep6_terrell.html

https://archive.org/details/sim_boston-phoenix_december-26-1997-january-01-1998_26_52/page/n57/mode/2up?q=%22geraldine+fibbers%22+butch (ashare, boston phoenix eoy?)

live reviews

https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1997-jul-21-ca-14767-story.html

https://www.tucsonweekly.com/tw/12-11-97/sbites.htm

news

https://web.archive.org/web/19991010062340/http://www.addict.com/MNOTW/96-05-24.html#Fibbers (mentions cline as fill in guitarist, and “california toughie”)

https://www.worldradiohistory.com/UK/Music-Week/1997/Music-Week-1997-10-04.pdf uk release date october 6 1997

https://www.worldradiohistory.com/Archive-All-Music/Pollstar/90s/97/Pollstar-1997-08-04.pdf (tour dates)

https://www.worldradiohistory.com/Archive-All-Music/Gavin-Report/90/97/Gavin-1997-07-11.pdf (california tuffy date)

https://web.archive.org/web/20220127061658/http://www.mtv.com/news/1731/tour-de-force-crystal-method-geraldine-fibbers/ (tour dates circa nov 1997??)

https://www.worldradiohistory.com/Archive-All-Music/Music-Connection/90/1994/Music-Connection-1994-11-21.pdf signed to virgin in october 1994

etc

proquest IDs 2371029471, 312644589, 222397068 (guitar player), 227101949 (mentions that scrapped can tribute album “yoo do right” was prolly for)

https://www.worldradiohistory.com/UK/Music-Week/1997/Music-Week-1997-10-04.pdf uk release date9

https://www.thestranger.com/music/2015/09/16/22861966/steve-fisk-winner-of-the-2015-stranger-genius-award-in-music producer steve fisk names lost somewhere and butch as the two favorite albums he produced ever.

https://web.archive.org/web/19990223192636/http://ubl.com/ubl/cards/007/6/45.html (UBL thing. probably nothing good here)

https://web.archive.org/web/19991011085416/http://members.aol.com/lordouch/readercover.html (it is THE geraldine fibbers. not “geraldine fibbers”)

https://archive.org/details/contemporarymusi00gale/page/92/mode/2up?q=%22geraldine+fibbers%22

https://web.archive.org/web/20010520112050/http://www.addict.com/issues/4.03/Poll_Results/Writer’s_Poll/Writer_Poll_index2.html (for more info on the poll in general see here)

https://web.archive.org/web/19970501091250/http://www.virginrecords.com/artists/VR.cgi?ARTIST_NAME=Geraldine_Fibbers PRESS BIO 97

irrelevant

idk https://www.uncut.co.uk/features/low-by-nels-cline-35077/

https://archive.org/details/thing_10/mode/2up?q=%22Ethyl+Meatplow%22+%22happy+days+sweetheart%22 thing zine… interesting lore/history round this zine

(???) of No Depression (formatting bad) […][3]

https://soundstudiesblog.com/2016/11/28/riot-grrrl-punk-and-the-tyranny-of-technique/ (read later)

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