Prairie Home Invasion is a first album released by Jello Biafra

Jello Biafra

Jello Biafra is an American musician, spoken word artist and leading figure of the Green Party of the United States. Biafra first gained attention as the lead singer and songwriter for San Francisco punk rock band Dead Kennedys...

 with Mojo Nixon

Mojo Nixon

Mojo Nixon is an American musician, known for playing psychobilly music...

 in 1994. The title is a satire of the popular public radio program A Prairie Home Companion

A Prairie Home Companion

A Prairie Home Companion is a live radio variety show created and hosted by Garrison Keillor. The show runs on Saturdays from 5 to 7 p.m. Central Time, and usually originates from the Fitzgerald Theater in Saint Paul, Minnesota, although it is frequently taken on the road...

. There was also a single released for "Will The Fetus Be Aborted?" which included an outtake from this album entitled "The Lost World" as a B-Side.

Track listing

1. "Buy My Snake Oil" - 9:07
2. "Where Are We Gonna Work (When the Trees Are Gone?)" - 3:12 (Darryl Cherney
   Darryl Cherney
   Darryl Cherney is a musician and environmental activist. He is member of the Earth First! environmental movement. He lives in Humboldt County, California....
   
    cover)
3. "Convoy in the Sky" - 3:33
4. "Atomic Power" - 3:06 (Fred Kirby
   Fred Kirby
   Frederick Austin Kirby was an American country-and-western recording and performance artist. He also was a song writer.- Life and work :...
   
    cover)
5. "Are You Drinking With Me Jesus?" - 3:10 (Lou and Peter Berryman
   Lou and Peter Berryman
   Lou and Peter Berryman are American folk singers-songwriters. They are longtime residents of Madison, Wisconsin and tour the United States extensively....
   
    cover)
6. "Love Me, I'm a Liberal" - 4:01 (Phil Ochs
   Phil Ochs
   Philip David Ochs was an American protest singer and songwriter who was known for his sharp wit, sardonic humor, earnest humanism, political activism, insightful and alliterative lyrics, and haunting voice...
   
    cover)
7. "Burgers of Wrath" - 3:51
8. "Nostalgia for an Age That Never Existed" - 4:56
9. "Hamlet Chicken Plant Disaster" - 3:48
10. "Mascot Mania" - 4:50
11. "Let's Go Burn Ole Nashville Down" - 2:38
12. "Will the Fetus Be Aborted?" - 3:42
13. "Plastic Jesus
    Plastic Jesus
    "Plastic Jesus" is an American folk song written by Ed Rush and George Cromarty in 1957. They recorded it as a humorous ad spoof in 1962 as The Goldcoast Singers on World Pacific Records' Here They Are! The Goldcoast Singers ....
    
    " - 4:31

Personnel

• Sean McCarthy - Bass
• Mike "Wild" Middleton - Percussion, Background Vocals, Drums
• Marty Muse - Pedal Steel
• Ted Roddy - Harmonica
• Stuart Sullivan - Engineer, Mixing
• Marshall Lawless - Producer
• Sandra Patyk - Background Vocals
• Amy Boone - Background Vocals
• Cindy Yates - Background Vocals
• Deborah Kelly - Background Vocals
• Louis Jay Meyers - Banjo
• Danny Barnes - Dobro, Electric Guitar
• Pete Gordon - Organ, Background Vocals, Accordion, Piano
• Champ Hood - Fiddle
• Evan Johns - Guitar
• Don Leady - Electric Guitar
• Jello Biafra
  Jello Biafra
  Jello Biafra is an American musician, spoken word artist and leading figure of the Green Party of the United States. Biafra first gained attention as the lead singer and songwriter for San Francisco punk rock band Dead Kennedys...
  
   - Vocals, Photography, Main Performer
• Mojo Nixon
  Mojo Nixon
  Mojo Nixon is an American musician, known for playing psychobilly music...
  
   - Banjo, Harmonica, Tambourine, Vocals, Guitar

Hamlet Chicken Plant Disaster

This particular song deals with a disaster at a chicken processing plant in Hamlet, North Carolina

Hamlet, North Carolina

Hamlet is a town in Richmond County, North Carolina, United States. The population was 6,018 at the 2000 census.-Geography:Hamlet is located at ....

. The plant caught fire, killing 25 workers and injuring 40 after they were trapped behind locked fire doors.