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“A Black Man Speaks From the Ghetto” Preachin’ and teachin’ in the ghetto.
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“Beat Generation” Jazz Poetry. Folk Lyrics. John Brent, Len Chandler and Hugh Romney at the Gaslight, Greenwich Village. Musitron Records.
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Iceberg Slim “Reflections” (1976) ALA Records. Producer: David Drozen; Executive producer: Louis Drozen; Photography: Robert Wotherspoon. Former Chicago pimp and convict, Slim (Robert Beck) reformed...
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Blue Joni Mitchell (1971) This one is timeless and beautiful. So personal and so universal.
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CALL ME BURROUGHS (ESP-Disk) Recorded in his instantly recognizable, craggy and clipped mid-western drawl at the English Bookshop, Paris, France in 1965. This first recording by poet, novelist and...
View ArticleRIP Gil Scott-Heron
Gil Scott-Heron (April 1, 1949 – May 27, 2011) “Pieces of a Man” Flying Dutchman Records (1971) With Brian Jackson, Ron Carter, “Pretty” Purdie, Burt Jones, and Hubert Laws Including The...
View ArticleJoe Blossom Back to Blake
Read about this cool new track from Joe Blossom and Listen here! We dig the cool album cover art by Lance Ravenswood too!
View ArticleA record, by Henry Gibson
Henry Gibson The GRASS Menagerie (or a flower child’s garden of verse) Epic Records (1965) Cover photo by Roy Cummings Read more about Henry here!
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Allen Ginsberg Reads Kaddish A 20th Centutry American Ecstatic Narrative Poem Atlantic Records Verbum Series (1966) Front Cover shot by Richard Avedon Back cover is some of Ginsberg’s...
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