| Crazy Backwards Alphabet | ||||
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| Studio album by Henry Kaiser and Crazy Backwards Alphabet | ||||
| Released | January 1987 | |||
| Recorded | December 1986 | |||
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| Length | 46:23 (LP version), 1:12:46 (CD version) | |||
| Label | SST (110) | |||
| Producer | Henry Kaiser | |||
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| Allmusic |    [1] |
Crazy Backwards Alphabet is an album conceived by cartoonist Matt Groening and recorded by Henry Kaiser. The core group features Kaiser on guitar along with drummer John "Drumbo" French (ex Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band), bassist Andy West (of Dixie Dregs), and Swedish avant-rock drummer Michael Maksymenko.
American rock critic Robert Christgau said of the album: "Concept is Beefheart as Dixie Dregs, kind of, with intermittent lyrics, not always in English."[2] It was released in 1987.
Further recordings were made for a follow-up album; however, it was not released until 2007 as Crazy Backwards Alphabet II.[3]