Lucille Has Messed My Mind Up is a 1970 album by Jeff Simmons

Jeff Simmons (musician)

Jeff Simmons, born May 1949 in Seattle, Washington, is a rock musician and former member of Frank Zappa's Mothers of Invention. Simmons provided bass, guitar, and backing vocals for the group between 1970 and 1971. He left The Mothers just prior to the filming of 200 Motels in mid 1971...

, produced by Frank Zappa

Frank Zappa

Frank Vincent Zappa was an American composer, singer-songwriter, electric guitarist, record producer and film director. In a career spanning more than 30 years, Zappa wrote rock, jazz, orchestral and musique concrète works. He also directed feature-length films and music videos, and designed...

 under the pseudonym La Marr Bruister.


Description

Jeff Simmons' vocal rendition of the title track is anguished; the wonderful thing about Zappa's guitar lead, and the pseudonym could only fool a deaf person, was the attack of the sound, like ripping paper. There was no question about what Lucille was doing to their minds; you fell in love with Lucille.

Its title track was later rerecorded as part of Zappa's 1979 album, Joe's Garage

Joe's Garage

Joe's Garage is a 1979 rock opera by Frank Zappa. Zappa stated that along with Lumpy Gravy, this album was one of his finest achievements. It was originally released as two separate albums, the first comprising Act I, and the second part as a double-album which made up Acts II & III. All three...

. Another track, "Wonderful Wino," was rerecorded and released on Zappa's Zoot Allures

Zoot Allures

Zoot Allures is a 1976 rock album by Frank Zappa. This was Zappa's only release on the Warner Bros. Records label. Due to a lawsuit with his former manager Herb Cohen Frank Zappa's recording contract was temporarily re-assigned from DiscReet Records to Warner Bros.The title is a pun on the French...

album.

Lucille Has Messed My Mind Up was described as the second best album on the Straight Records label by Mojo Magazine

Mojo (magazine)

MOJO is a popular music magazine published initially by Emap, and since January 2008 by Bauer, monthly in the United Kingdom. Following the success of the magazine Q, publishers Emap were looking for a title which would cater for the burgeoning interest in classic rock music...

. In 2007, it was re-issued on CD by World In Sound Records.

Tracks

1. Appian Way
2. Zondo Zondo
3. Madame Du Barry
4. I'm In The Music Business
5. Lucille Has Messed My Mind Up
6. Raye
7. Wonderful Wino
8. Tigres
9. Aqueous Humore
10. Conversations With A Recluse

External links

• Album info