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Been a couple of years, but Dylan has opened up in interview again. The occasion is the 3-cd set called Triplicate. This music he is recording and discussing, this is what I was listening to before folk music and the Beatles. Really it wasnt until Tamborine Man and Satisfaction that I got with rocknroll. There is still an old time easy listening station on AM in Boston and everyone in my family tunes into it from time to time. The melodies and arrangements are great - and it is so removed from everything else. Through YouTube have been able to track down the Swing Vocal versions of Jazz standards ( No Moon at All ), and discover more deeply the lush bygone era. (I am reading by coincidence a bio of Bing Crosby by Gary Giddens, with detailed descriptions of the arrangements of his great numbers.) So given that I appreciate that Dylan appreciates this trove of musical art. And his singing has gotten better through the process of doing the five or so CDs, but he still has so much tr...

Chuck Berry (Oct 28, 1926-Mar 18, 2016) No Money Down My cousin Derrick's Chevy! As I was motivatin' Back in town I saw a Cadillac sign Sayin' "No Money Down" So I eased on my brakes And I pulled in the drive Gunned my motor twice Then I walked inside Dealer came to me Said "Trade in you Ford And I'll put you in a car That'll eat up the road Just tell me what you want And then sign on that line And I'll have it brought down to you In a hour's time" I'm gonna get me a car And I'll be headed on down the road Then I won't have to worry About that broken - down, raggedy Ford "Well Mister I want a yellow convertible Four - door de Ville With a Continental spare And a wide chrome wheel I want power steering And power brakes I want a powerful motor With a jet off - take I want air condition I want automatic heat And I want a full Murphy bed In my back seat I want short - wave radio I want TV and a phone You k...

Power9 die Let me riff a little on Kuno Meyer. His name surfaced on my horizon way back. The book was Selections of Ancient Irish Poetry (1911). I bought a replicated version of the book - which was something you did back in the day on out-of-print books whose copyrights had expired. A nifty version of Selections of Ancient Irish Poetry is now on the Web via the Way Back machine . Memorable name and it belonged to a guy who was very deep into early Irish poetry. His translations were amazing. You know there are some people (Angel Flores is another) who get it, when it comes to translating poetry. I didn’t really know anything about Kuno himself. And was disappointed when I looked him up (cursorily) that there wasn’t much about his talent .. but there was a whole lot about his controversy. I just learned today he was a German scholar, and he went to Great Britain as a student, and he developed a love for Irish poetry. But what he became famous for was something completely othe...

Jerry Garcia - After concert - We decided there was a certain energy missing that night. And as we walked from the concert we in unison sang "I'm Ready" the Muddy Waters song where he "hopes some screwball wants to fight" and lo and behold in a Checker Cab about to depart were the Gratefuls. And Jerry hearing us singing, with a bit of a limp smile somewhat nodded in our direction...Shook hands with Dick Waterman who managed Muddy, Bonnie Raitt, Skip James, Son House, many others… he had a booth...It was the Boston Blues Fest  .... William Burroughs -  I went up to him after a reading at Charles St. Reading House in 1973 and asked him a couple of questions for a story I wrote maybe for journalism class. He was open. He'd just moved back to US after many years overseas. "Is America a more or less a repressive state now?" I asked. "It's a lot more open," he said...Saw Danny Kaye around Christmas at Brentano's Book Store on 5th...

By T.W. Zickcrewe When I first got to town I went to demarks swing club They had them shimmy dancers – and them Shakespeare plays 0. When I got to that town I found me a home Glad but I found the twilight zone In a halfway house Stuck halfway The sun in the morning was a big red flame i. The tie-dyed streets All looked inviting I wore some shades To adjust the lighting Wandered like a sailor with a self-distain so I left that town for the golden plain. ii. The heater I had would freeze and die the girls down that way walked streets on the side Chased a shimmy dancer In a Shakespeare play I left that town For Fortuna way iii. the moon was a sliver the stars were a wonder half-sleeping in a dream I heard Freddy Fender the caffeine and nicotine like rich vicuna they’d fall off their stools and I’d split Fortuna. iv. lumber trucks rolled to the seaside nightly all in my sleep I was stumbling and groaning I left that town I...

Below Jeff is with Bob Ganong, artist and friend. Jeff had created a paper Mache squid for the Daily Catch restaurant - they'd surreptitiously conveyed his paintings to his Bromfield Gallery opening, during the '78 Blizzard martial law.  And Jeff paid back with squid to hang on their wall. Several of us carried it down Hanover St., as in a Madi Gras parade, one March morning It is possible to see a poem I wrote on the event attached - it recalls a man, encountering sea urchins for sale in baskets on the street.  Squid Day how long I aint seen these  - like this I used to eat -  sea urchins on Hanover Street. -Jack Vaughan