Mirror Man (Captain Beefheart album)

Mirror Man
Studio album by Captain Beefheart and his Magic Band
Released	April 1971
Recorded	October–November 1967
Studio	TTG Studios, Hollywood
Genre	Blues-rock[1] blues[2]
Length	52:51
Label	Buddah
Producer	Bob Krasnow
Captain Beefheart and his Magic Band chronology
Lick My Decals Off, Baby (1970) Mirror Man (1971) The Spotlight Kid (1972)

Mirror Man is the fifth studio album by American band Captain Beefheart and his Magic Band, released in April 1971 by Buddah Records. It contains material that was recorded for the label in 1967 and originally intended for release as part of an abandoned project entitled It Comes to You in a Plain Brown Wrapper. Much of the material from this project was subsequently re-recorded and released through a different label as Strictly Personal (1968). The tapes from the original sessions, however, remained under the care of Buddah, who took four of the unissued tunes and released them as Mirror Man. The album sleeve features an erroneous claim that it had been "recorded one night in Los Angeles in 1965".

The album is dominated by three long, blues-rooted jams featuring uncharacteristically sparse lyrical accompaniment from Beefheart. A fourth tune, the eight-minute "Kandy Korn", is an earlier version of a track that appears on Strictly Personal. In 1999, Buddha Records issued an expanded version of the album entitled The Mirror Man Sessions, which features five additional tracks taken from the abandoned tapes.