First Blues
Released: Feb 21, 2006
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Released: Feb 21, 2006
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Released on LP in 1983, First Blues is Allen Ginsberg's recorded opus; it was finally made available in the 21st century on compact disc courtesy of those wonderfully weird folks from Water Records...
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Wichita Vortex Sutra
Released: Oct 5, 2004
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Released: Oct 5, 2004
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Allen Ginsberg's Wichita Vortex Sutra, an epic poem about the Vietnam War, was written in 1966. It follows Howl and Kaddish as his third major work and once more links him in direct lineation to...
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Howl
Released: Mar 30, 1998
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Released: Mar 30, 1998
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"Howl" itself (presented in an 18-minute version here) is one of the most important poems of the 20th century. Its shock value has largely dissipated in the ensuing decades, but that, in a way, is...
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Ballad of the Skeletons
Released: Oct 8, 1996
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Released: Oct 8, 1996
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Allen Ginsberg understood as well as anyone that, in the latter half of the 20th century, rock & roll would be the medium through which poetry and social commentary would reach the young and hungry...
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Lion for Real
Released: Aug 31, 1990
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Released: Aug 31, 1990
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Recorded in the late '80s, The Lion for Real consists primarily of brief poems set to avant-jazz. Producer Hal Willner has assembled a group that at various times features Marc Ribot, Bill Frisell...
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Kaddish
Released: 1966
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Released: 1966
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Kaddish hardly needs an introduction to fans of American poetry. Like Howl before it, it stands as one of Allen Ginsberg's monumental achievements. This recording, done in 1964 at Brandeis...
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