Margaret Cho Launches 'Cho Dependent' Featuring Ani DiFranco, Tegan and Sara and More

Drop Dead Diva comedian Margaret Cho is heading back out on the road this summer for the celebrity-packed Margaret Cho: Cho Dependent.  The new laugh-inducing CD compilation features musicians Ani DiFranco, Tegan and Sara, Patty Griffin, Andrew Bird, Fiona Apple and others. Scheduled released date is August 24, 2010.

“Over the years of being an intense music geek, I got to meet a lot of my heroes and I tricked them all into writing songs with me,” explains Cho. “Most comics want to be rock stars, and most rock stars want to be comics, so it was an easy exchange.There are so many amazing people I got to work with on this album,” Cho continues, “Jon Brion, Fiona Apple, Tegan and Sara, Andrew Bird, Ani DiFranco, Garrison Starr, Meghan Toohey, Brendan Benson, Rachael Yamagata, Carl Newman, Grant Lee Phillips, Patty Griffin, Ben Lee, Kevin Barnes -- I still have to pinch myself!”

You may be wondering – What could Cho possibly hope to accomplish by releasing Cho Dependent?  “I want to be in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and on Elvis Costello's Spectacle so I can talk all serious about my songwriting ‘process’ -- which is basically trying to figure out what rhymes with ‘dick.’”

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All 13 tracks on the CD were co-written by Cho and the artists assigned to the track specifically. There is a hidden track available on CD/Digital only called, "Lesbian Escalation" (co-written with & featuring Rachael Yamagata).  Famed YouTube videographer Liam Kyle Sullivan will help to release music videos in conjunction with YouTube and Cho Dependent. 

Complete track list:

1. Intervention (co-written with & featuring Tegan & Sara)

2. Calling in Stoned (co-written with Ben Lee / featuring Ben Lee & Tommy Chong)

3. Your Dick (co-written with AC Newman / featuring Ben Lee)

4. Baby I’m With The Band (co-written with & featuring Brendan Benson)

5. Hey Big Dog (co-written with Patty Griffin / featuring Ben Lee & Fiona Apple)

6. I'm Sorry (co-written with & featuring Andrew Bird)

7. Lice (co-written with & featuring Ben Lee)

8. Enemies (co-written with & featuring Jon Brion)

9. Asian Adjacent (co-written with & featuring Grant Lee Phillips)

10. Gimme Your Seed (co-written with & featuring Garrison Starr)

11. Eat Shit and Die (co-written with & featuring Grant Lee Phillips)

12. Captain Cameltoe  (co-written with & featuring Ani DiFranco)

13. My Puss (co-written with Diana Yanez & Kurt Hall / parody of Mickey Avalon & Dirt Nasty song

Hidden Track (on CD/Digital only): Lesbian Escalation (co-written with & featuring Rachael Yamagata)

A 30-city U.S. tour will accompany the release of Cho's musical comedy CD.  Visit her official website to read more about the tour and where you can catch Cho on the road.

Cho has been very busy!  Not only is she releasing the afore-mentioned CD compilation this summer, she is also currently starring in season two of Lifetime Television’s Drop Dead Diva.  As previously reported, Drop Dead Diva has featured guest appearances by Paula Abdul, Rosie O’Donnell, Kathy Najimy, Cybill Shepard, Nia Vardalos, Chuck Woolery, Jasmine Guy and Liza Minnelli.  Cho has been a regular cast member on the show since the beginning. Catch up with past episodes of Drop Dead Divaon Lifetime.

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