Margaret Cho teams with Tegan and Sara, Fiona Apple, others for new album
by Whitney Matheson
USAToday.com PopCandy
I’m a longtime fan of Margaret Cho, and I’m glad her standup and acting careers are still going strong.
Right now you can see her on the second season of Lifetime’s Drop Dead Diva (and I know you may have doubts because of the L-word, but it’s really a well-written and funny series). Cho has also recorded a musical comedy album called Cho Dependent, out Aug. 24, with heaps of guest musicians.
Contributors include Tegan and Sara, Andrew Bird, Brendan Benson, Rachael Yamagata, Grant Lee Phillips, Jon Brion, Fiona Apple, Ben Lee, Ani DiFranco. (Per usual, she’s not messing around.)
“I still have to pinch myself!” Cho says in a press release of her collaborators.
And if the songs are half as memorable as their titles, a trip to see the comedian on tour this fall will be well worth it.
The tracklist (with some editing):
1. Intervention (co-written with/featuring Tegan and Sara)
2. Calling in Stoned (co-written with Ben Lee/featuring Ben Lee and Tommy Chong)
3. Your D–k (co-written with A.C. Newman/featuring Ben Lee)
4. Baby I’m With The Band (co-written with/featuring Brendan Benson)
5. Hey Big Dog (co-written with Patty Griffin/featuring Ben Lee and Fiona Apple)
6. I’m Sorry (co-written with/featuring Andrew Bird)
7. Lice (co-written with/featuring Ben Lee)
8. Enemies (co-written with/featuring Jon Brion)
9. Asian Adjacent (co-written with/featuring Grant Lee Phillips)
10. Gimme Your Seed (co-written with/featuring Garrison Starr and Meghan Toohey)
11. Eat S–t and Die (co-written with/featuring Grant Lee Phillips)
12. Captain Cameltoe (co-written with/featuring Ani DiFranco)
13. My Pu-s (co-written with Diana Yanez and Kurt Hall/parody of Mickey Avalon & Dirt Nasty song)
* Hidden Track: Lesbian Escalation (co-written with/featuring Rachael Yamagata)
No. 12 sounds like a great idea for a Halloween costume.