Jean Lee and the Yellow Dog is an album by Australian guitarist and songwriter Ed Kuepper

Ed Kuepper

Ed Kuepper is an Australian guitarist, vocalist and songwriter. He co-founded the seminal punk band The Saints, the experimental post-punk group Laughing Clowns and later the grunge-like The Aints...

 recorded in 2007 and released on the Hot label. Described as a loose concept album

Concept album

In music, a concept album is an album that is "unified by a theme, which can be instrumental, compositional, narrative, or lyrical." Commonly, concept albums tend to incorporate preconceived musical or lyrical ideas rather than being improvised or composed in the studio, with all songs contributing...

 based around Jean Lee

Jean Lee (murderer)

Jean Lee was an Australian woman, convicted of murder, and notable as the last woman to be executed in Australia.- Life :...

, the last female hanged in Australia, the album was released in a single CD and as a double CD limited edition with outtake

Outtake

An outtake is a portion of a work that is removed in the editing process and not included in the work's final, publicly released version. In the digital era, significant outtakes have been appended to CD and DVD reissues of many albums and films as bonus tracks or features, in film often, but not...

s and demo recordings

Demo (music)

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.

Reception

The Allmusic review by Jack Rabid awarded the album 4 stars and states "Long, varied, constantly and effectively surprising and involving, it's just plain fabulous".

Track listing

All compositions by Ed Kuepper with lyrics by Judi Dransfield-Kuepper except as indicated

1. "Hang Jean Lee" -
2. "Miracles Are an Illusion" -
3. "That Depends (Pt 3)" -
4. 'Daddy's Girl" -
5. "Skinny Jean" -
6. "The Yellow Dog" -
7. "Demolition" -
8. "That's a Shame" -
9. "Real to Me I" -
10. "Real to Me II" -
11. "Finding You" (Robert Forster
    Robert Forster (musician)
    Robert Forster is an Australian singer-songwriter, best known for his work with songwriting partner Grant McLennan, with whom he co-founded The Go-Betweens.Forster grew up in Brisbane, Australia attending Brisbane Grammar School...
    
    , Grant McLennan
    Grant McLennan
    Grant William McLennan was an Australian singer-songwriter with the alternative rock band The Go-Betweens, which he co-founded with Robert Forster in Brisbane, Australia in 1977...
    
    ) -
12. "Ambient Piece"

Bonus CD 2: Pretty Rough Trade

1. "Conscience" [out-take] -
2. "The Big 900" [out-take] -
3. "Colonel Kramer" [out-take] -
4. "He Asked for Water and Jean Gives Him Gasoline" [out-take] -
5. "Miracles" [demo] -
6. "Shame" [demo] -
7. "That Depends, Pt I" [demo] -
8. "Jean Behind the Wall of Sleep (Ed, Jeff and Sir Alfonso Horsin' Around in the Studio)" -
9. "Another Version of an Australian Badland" [out-take] -

Personnel

• Ed Kuepper
  Ed Kuepper
  Ed Kuepper is an Australian guitarist, vocalist and songwriter. He co-founded the seminal punk band The Saints, the experimental post-punk group Laughing Clowns and later the grunge-like The Aints...
  
   - vocals, electric guitar
  Electric guitar
  An electric guitar is a guitar that uses the principle of direct electromagnetic induction to convert vibrations of its metal strings into electric audio signals. The signal generated by an electric guitar is too weak to drive a loudspeaker, so it is amplified before sending it to a loudspeaker...
  
  , acoustic guitar
  Acoustic guitar
  An acoustic guitar is a guitar that uses only an acoustic sound board. The air in this cavity resonates with the vibrational modes of the string and at low frequencies, which depend on the size of the box, the chamber acts like a Helmholtz resonator, increasing or decreasing the volume of the sound...
  
  
• Jeffrey Wegener - drums
  Drum kit
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• Peter Oxley
  Peter Oxley
  Peter Oxley was the bass player for 1980s Australian pop-rock band The Sunnyboys.He is credited with writing two songs with The Sunnyboys: "The Stooge" and "You Don't Need Me"...
  
   - bass
  Bass guitar
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• Sir Alfonso - various bits and pieces
• Jane Elliott - cello
  Cello
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• Chris Bailey
  Chris Bailey
  Chris Bailey is the co-founder and singer of rock band The Saints. He was born in Nanyuki, Kenya in 1959 to Irish parents. Bailey grew up in Belfast, Northern Ireland until the age of seven, when his family emigrated to Australia. The Saints were formed in Australia in 1974. Their first hit was in...
  
   - vocals (track 3)
• Warren Ellis
  Warren Ellis (musician)
  Warren Ellis is an Australian multi-instrumentalist and composer, best known for his work with Dirty Three, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds and Grinderman and his soundtrack scores with Nick Cave. He plays violin, piano, bouzouki, guitar, flute, mandolin, and tenor guitar...
  
   - violin
  Violin
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   (track 2)
• Su Crowley - backing vocals (tracks 3 & 8)
• John Willsteed
  John Willsteed
  John Willsteed is an award winning Australian musician and sound designer. As a musician, he is best known as a member of the iconic Brisbane band The Go-Betweens, in which he played bass guitar from 1987–1989, most notably on the album 16 Lovers Lane...
  
   - banjo
  Banjo
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  , lap steel guitar
  Lap steel guitar
  The lap steel guitar is a type of steel guitar, an instrument derived from and similar to the guitar. The player changes pitch by pressing a metal or glass bar against the strings instead of by pressing strings against the fingerboard....
  
  (tracks 9 & 10)