blues band from Austin, Texas formed in 2005 featuring Paul Leary, guitarist of Butthole Surfers and producer of Sublime, Meat Puppets, Reverend Horton Heat, also featuring drummer Sam McCandless from the band Cold. Singer-songwriter Formica Iglesia, on vocals, fronts the band. "The Carny" is a song from Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds on the album Your Funeral... My Trial. The Joni Mitchell song "That Song About The Midway" depicted the singer falling in love with a carny and following the show from town to town. Carney is a 1972 album by Leon Russell. Carny Man by Cross Canadian Ragweed. "Rusholme Ruffians," released on the album Meat is Murder (1985) by The Smiths, recounts a schoolgirl's infatuation with a greasy-haired carney, a "speedway operator": It "is all a tremulous heart requires." After her advances are denied, she wonders, "How quickly would I die if I jumped from the top of the parachutes?" Literature In Michael Kurland's The Unicorn Girl, one of the Greenwich Village Trilogy, first published in 1969, some of the main characters are from a carny travelling between the stars in an alternate universe. Sylvia, one of the travellers, uses carny cant when she and one of the two Earth-born protagonists go into a carnival apparently in Earth's 20th century. In Robert A. Heinlein's Stranger in a Strange Land, the protagonist Michael spends some time living with carnies. In Theodore Sturgeon's novel The Dreaming Jewels, the hero flees with carnies to escape a brutal father. The head carny collects unusual people because he has discovered strange jewels that create people as works of art. Sturgeon himself worked as a carny for a time. Barry Longyear's Circus World books Circus World, City of Baraboo and Elephant Song are science fiction, set on a planet populated by the descendants of a crashed space-going circus, with preserved and evolved carny culture elements including performance as a means of barter. The 2013 Stephen King novel Joyland is set in a 1970s American amusement park and makes reference to "carnies". The 2005 Bryan Johnson and Walter Flanagan comic book series Karney follows the exploits of a murderous band of "carnies" who travel from town to town slaughtering the residents with the intention of turning them into barbecue meat. Theater In Liliom by Ferenc Molnár the main character is a carnival Carousel Barker. In Carousel by Rodgers and Hammerstein, based on Liliom the main