Freakin' at the Freakers Ball

From penning Johnny Cash's "Boy Named Sue", to Playboy cartoons, to Dr. Demento's "Freakin at the Freakers Ball, to writing "The Missing Piece" and "The Giving Tree" - how can anyone not know about Shel Siverstien? This album is a classic. 

A couple of Shel Siverstein quotes:

"When I was a kid—12, 14, around there—I would much rather have been a good baseball player or a hit with the girls. But I couldn't play ball, I couldn't dance. Luckily, the girls didn't want me; not much I could do about that. So I started to draw and to write. I was also lucky that I didn't have anybody to copy, be impressed by. I had developed my own style."

"I think that if you're creative person, you should just go about your business, do your work and not care about how it's received. I never read reviews because if you believe the good ones you have to believe the bad ones too. Not that I don't care about success. I do, but only because it lets me do what I want."

Shel Siverstein: Freakin at the Freaker's Ball (1972)

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Thumbsucker

I Got Stoned and I Missed It

Sara Cynthia Sylvia Stout Wouldn't Take the Garbage Out

Stacy Brown Got Two

Polling in a Pony

Freakin At the Freaker's Ball

All About You

Don't Give a Dose to the One You Love the Most

The Peace Proposal

Masochistic Baby

Liberated Lay

The Man Who Got No Sign

A Front Row Seat to Hear Ole Johnny Sing

Everbody's Makin It Big But Me

Folksinger Blues