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Order the new CD, Cho Dependent by Margaret Cho and get a limited* autographed CD Booklet with purchase!
About Margaret Cho:
Cho Dependent. "I have wanted to make an album like this forever. I love comedy music!"
The lyrics on Cho Dependent, which tackle issues of sex, drugs, rock 'n' roll (and lice), may be laugh-inducing, but Cho has made no compromises when it comes to the quality of the songwriting and production. After "My Puss," a hilarious rap parody Cho recorded impromptu-style with friends, became a surprise You Tube hit, Cho began to integrate more comedy music into her live stand-up shows. With Cho Dependent, her first comedy music album, Cho got the chance to hone her craft with some of the top names in the business.
"Over the years of being an intense music geek, I got to meet a lot of my heroes and I tricked them all into writing songs with me," explains Cho. "Most comics want to be rock stars, and most rock stars want to be comics, so it was an easy exchange."
"There are so many amazing people I got to work with on this album," Cho continues, "Jon Brion, Fiona Apple, Tegan and Sara, Andrew Bird, Ani DiFranco, Garrison Starr, Meghan Toohey, Brendan Benson, Rachael Yamagata, Carl Newman, Grant Lee Phillips, Patty Griffin, Ben Lee, Kevin Barnes - I still have to pinch myself!"
The many collaborators on Cho Dependent seem to be equally excited about working with Cho. Australian indie-pop artist Ben Lee said that working with Cho was "one of the most surprising and unexpected turns" in his career. Canadian folk-rock duo Tegan and Sara also blogged about their experiences recording with the taboo-busting funnywoman, whom they called "outrageously talented and funny." Tegan Quin writes "imagine ten hours of laughing, singing, eating, laughing, talking, eating and laughing and you might have a bit of a clearer picture about what our two days and nights were like."
Ultimately, Cho hopes to raise the bar for the genre as a whole - and get a little recognition for her contribution to the cause. Her motivations for this latter goal, however, are naturally as subversive as her humor. "I want to be in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and on Elvis Costello's Spectacle so I can talk all serious about my songwriting process - which is basically trying to figure out what rhymes with 'dick'" |
