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Frustration Plantation
Studio album by Rasputina
Released	March 16, 2004
Recorded	The Blah-Blah Institute, Threshold Music, The Mummy's Tomb
Genre	Alternative rock, cello rock
Label	Instinct Records
Producer	Joseph Bishara, Melora Creager
Rasputina chronology
The Lost and Found, 2nd Edition (2003) Frustration Plantation (2004) A Radical Recital (2005)

Frustration Plantation, the fourth studio album recorded by cello-dominated rock group Rasputina, was released by Instinct Records on March 16, 2004. While not exactly a concept album, Frustration Plantation does have many songs darkly relating to women's lives in the Old South.

[edit] Track listing

All songs written by Melora Creager unless otherwise noted.

1. "Doomsday Averted" – 2:34
2. "Secret Message" – 3:16
3. "Possum of the Grotto" – 2:56
4. "If Your Kisses Can't Hold the Man You Love" (Jack Yellen, Vivian Ellis) – 3:07
5. "The Mayor" – 4:37
6. "When I Count..." – 0:26
7. "High on Life" – 3:31
8. "Wicked Dickie" – 2:23
9. "My Captivity by Savages" – 3:00
10. "Saline the Salt Lake Queen" – 4:06
11. "Oh, Injury" – 4:10
12. "When I Was a Young Girl" (Lead Belly) – 1:36
13. "Momma Was an Opium Smoker" – 1:52
14. "Nov. 17dee" (Lyrics by Hollis Lane)– 1:08
15. "Girls' School" – 5:29

[edit] Disc 2: Poor Relations in the Shed Out Back (Bonus)

1. "Yellow Fever" (Frustration Plantation Out-take) – 1:27
2. "Momma Was an Opium-Smoker" (Melora mix) – 1:57
3. "November 17dee" (long version) – 3:34
4. "Secret Message (Melora mix)" – 3:17
5. "Crazy Swan" (Cabin Fever remnant) – 3:07
6. "Sanchez" (Frustration Plantation sketch) – 0:55
7. "Mr. Romberg" (from Lakme by Delibes) – 1:30
8. "My Soul" (Traditional) – 0:30
9. "Oh, Injury (reprise)" – 2:10

[edit] Credits

• Melora Creager – Cello, dulcimer, vocals, producer, engineer
• Zoë Keating – Cello, vocals, engineer
• Jonathon Tebeest – drums, percussion
• Joseph Bishara – Producer, drum programming, mixing, engineer
• Kenny Dykstra – Engineer
• Tom Baker – Mastering
• Hollis Willa Lane (daughter of Creager) - Vocals on track 14
• Symon Chow – Photography, typography, graphic realization