Holiday in Dirt is an album by Stan Ridgway, released in 2002 through Ultramodern/New West Records. It is a collection of leftovers, rarities, compositions for film soundtracks. A quasi-cinematic project, the release of the Holiday in Dirt album was accompanied by a showing of 14 short films by various independent filmmakers, each film a visual interpretation of one of the songs on the album. A compilation DVD of the films, titled Holiday in Dirt: 14 Short Films of the Music of Stan Ridgway and produced by Minneapolis filmmakers Chris Strouth and Rick Fuller, was released in February 2005.[3]

Holiday in Dirt
Compilation album by Stan Ridgway
Released	Feb. 12, 2002
Genre	Alternative rock
Label	Ultramodern/New West
Producer	Stan Ridgway
Stan Ridgway chronology
Anatomy (1999) Holiday in Dirt (2002) Blood (2003)

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[1]
Entertainment Weekly	A-[2]

Track listing

All tracks composed by Stan Ridgway.

Credits

• Stan Ridgway: Composer, guitar, harmonica, keyboards, liner notes, primary artist, producer, vocals
• Ted Andersen: Drums
• Baboo God: Engineer
• Don Bell: Saxophone
• Tchad Blake: Engineer
• Bob DeMaa: Mastering
• Mitchell Froom: Guest artist, organ, producer
• Zander Schloss: Banjo, guitarron, slide guitar
• Chris Strouth: Compilation producer
• David Sutton: Bass guitar
• Pietra Wexstun: Autoharp, keyboards, melodica, background vocals

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