Tears Of Steel & The Clowning Cavaleras(1973)

Jeannie's 3rd record was the ambitious double-album set Tears of Steel & The Clowning Calaveras (1976) which recreated her series of concerts held in November 1975. She drew the initial inspiration for the project from the poem Tears of Steel by Chilean writer Pablo Neruda, and from the 'Day of the Dead' ceremony, held annually in Mexico on the Catholic feast of All Soul's Day. This unique festival, in which people parade with `calaveras' (mock skeletons) in "a burlesque parody of life and death", is ostensibly a Catholic riutal, but is in fact a remnant of far more ancient pre-Columbian Aztec ceremonies. Again, Lewis and musical director Carlos put together an powerful and eclectic set of songs, including Phil Ochs' The Crucifixion, Graham Lowndes' Rising of the Tide, Jimmy Webb's The Moon's a Harsh Mistress, The Fugs' When the Mode of the Music Changes, Bowie's All the Madmen and Dory Previn's The Game.