Safe as Milk

Safe as Milk
Studio album by
ReleasedJune 1967[1]
RecordedSpring 1967
StudioRCA Studios, Los Angeles
Genre
Length33:40
LabelBuddah
ProducerRichard Perry, Bob Krasnow
Captain Beefheart and his Magic Band chronology
Safe as Milk
(1967)
Strictly Personal
(1968)
Singles from Safe as Milk
  1. "Yellow Brick Road" / "Abba Zaba"
    Released: August 17, 1967
  2. "Plastic Factory" / "Where There's Woman"
    Released: March 25, 1969

Safe as Milk is the debut studio album by American music group Captain Beefheart and his Magic Band, released in June 1967 by Buddah Records. A heavily blues-influenced work, the album features a 20-year-old Ry Cooder, who played guitar and wrote some of the arrangements.

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