Spanker Madness is the Asylum Street Spankers' salute to the devil weed-or, if you prefer, the holy herb.

A man works long hours at the circus, cleaning up after the animals and giving enemas to constipated elephants. A friend, observing the menial nature of the work, offers to help the man find another... more

The magnificently indefinable Asylum Street Spankers stand as one of America's most distinctive live groups. With an all-acoustic mix of genres hailed by Rolling Stone as "inspired, lunatic... more

Austin's iconic postmodern jug band takes a wide left turn with the world's first agnostic gospel album. Mixing raucous old traditionals with wryly humanistic originals from co-bandleader Wammo, the... more

America's favorite old-time hellraisers take their fans on one last journey. As echoes of Tin Pan Alley and vaudeville abound, the country, blues, jazz and swing songs they've borrowed and created go... more

The Spankers' fifth full-length release, My Favorite Record is music about loving music. Declaring that the best music is funny, joyful, moving and adventurous, the world's greatest all-acoustic band... more

Austin's all-acoustic ensemble covers a lot of ground on this typically eclectic outing. Blues, folk, jazz, rockabilly, klezmer, new wave, and even punk go through the Asylum Street Spankers' retro... more

Sometimes there's a thin line between tribute and parody, and Austin's acoustic Asylum Street Spankers walk that line with more grace and dignity than most. On their debut album, the Austin-based... more

This, Asylum Street Spankers' sophomore recording, breezes in on acoustic guitar and ukulele strains and the words "Life ain't a cakewalk, it's a waltz/And they're playing my music out of time" - and... more

A record for the amusement of children and arrested adolescents everywhere. Twenty-six songs full of cowbells, worlf calls, banjos, bongos, hiccups and rubber duckies about boppin' robins, cranky... more