Acoustic Kitty is the debut solo album by Canadian

Canada

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 singer-songwriter

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 John Mann

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, the lead singer of Spirit of the West

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. It was released in 2002 on Nettwerk

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. Mann's supporting band for the album consisted of Doug Elliott, Ford Pier

Ford Pier

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 and Michael Phillip Wojewoda

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. Wojewoda also produced the album.

The album's title track is inspired by the CIA

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's Acoustic Kitty

Acoustic Kitty

Acoustic Kitty was a CIA project launched by the Directorate of Science & Technology in the 1960s attempting to use cats in spy missions, intended to spy on the Kremlin, and Soviet embassies. A battery and a microphone were implanted into a cat and an antenna into its tail. This would allow the...

 espionage project of the 1960s, in which surveillance microphones were implanted into a cat

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Track listing

1. "Somebody's Miracle"
2. "A Lot to Learn"
3. "Acoustic Kitty"
4. "What Language"
5. "Ill Placed Monuments"
6. "Red Deer?"
7. "American TV"
8. "As Berlin Builds"
9. "Come Along With Me Tonight"
10. "Love's a Sobbing Idiot"
11. "Our Sick Love"
12. "Winterton"