New York Blues: Rags Ballads and Harmonium Songs

New York Blues: Rags Ballads and Harmonium Songs

New York Blues: Rags Ballads and Harmonium Songs

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Product Description
Subtitled - Rags, Ballads & Harmonium Song. The Harry Smith Recordings bring you vintage 1970's tunes by Allen Ginsberg such as the favorites 'CIA Dope Calypso', 'Dope Fiend Blues', 'Come Back Christmas' and 5 other enjoyable ditties. Intimately captured by Smith in his Chelsea hotel haunt, New York Blues is as much a commemoration of the lifelong kinship between the two free spirits as it is rare chance to get a truly whimsical earful of Ginsberg doing his thing. Featuring brilliant exclusive photos of Allen and Harry mucking about by New York photographer Brian Graham in depth liner notes by writer Mitch Myers. Locust Music. 2002.

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New York Blues: Rags Ballads and Harmonium Songs
Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
  • Intimate Look Into Ginsberg
 New York Blues: Rags Ballads and Harmonium Songs
Allen Ginsberg
Manufacturer: Locust
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B00006AFJR
Release Date: 2002-08-27

Tracks:

  1. 4 AM Blues (New York Blues/New York Youth Call Annunciation)
  2. Come Back Christmas (Macdougal Street Blues)
  3. Cia Dope Calypso
  4. Put Down Yr Cigarette Rag
  5. Slack Key Guitar (Siratoka Beach Croon)
  6. Bus Ride Ballad To Suva
  7. Prayer Blues
  8. Dope Fiend Blues

Album Description

Subtitled - Rags, Ballads & Harmonium Song. The Harry Smith Recordings bring you vintage 1970's tunes by Allen Ginsberg such as the favorites 'CIA Dope Calypso', 'Dope Fiend Blues', 'Come Back Christmas' and 5 other enjoyable ditties. Intimately captured by Smith in his Chelsea hotel haunt, New York Blues is as much a commemoration of the lifelong kinship between the two free spirits as it is rare chance to get a truly whimsical earful of Ginsberg doing his thing. Featuring brilliant exclusive photos of Allen and Harry mucking about by New York photographer Brian Graham in depth liner notes by writer Mitch Myers. Locust Music. 2002.

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars Intimate Look Into Ginsberg.......2003-06-20

If you're still in the dark about it, yes, Ginsberg tried his hand at singing. Bob Dylan was a fan of his and actually encouraged him to do so. Here we have 1973 recordings (made at the Chelsea hotel) made by Harry Smith and feature Allen Ginsberg 'doing his thing' on the harmonium. It's quite a good set of songs, the opener could pretty well be a pop song (even by today's standards) and it shows how timeless his work is, musical or literal. Then there's CIA Dope Calypso, which he's re-recorded since. It's pretty solid, it's an intimate look into his genius. One thing though, has anyone noticed how his singing bears quite a resemblence to Dylan?

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