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Allen Ginsberg
First Blues
Genres: Blues, Folk, Special Interest, Pop, Rock

Track Listings (11) - Disc #1
1. Going To San Diego
2. Vomit Express
3. Jimmy Berman (Gay Lib Rag)
4. NY Youth Call Annunciation
5. CIA Dope Calypso
6. Put Down Yr Cigarette Rag
7. Sickness Blues
8. Broken Bone Blues
9. Stay Away From White House
10. Hard-on Blues
11. Guru Blues
Track Listings (13) - Disc #2
1. Everybody Sing
2. Gospel Nobel Truths
3. Bus Ride Ballad To Suva
4. Prayer Blues
5. Love Forgiven
6. Father Death Blues
7. Dope Fiend Blues
8. Tyger
9. You Are My Dildo
10. Old Pond
11. No Reason
12. My Pretty Rose Tree
13. Capitol Air

CD Details

All Artists: Allen Ginsberg
Title: First Blues
Members Wishing: 1
Total Copies: 0
Label: Water
Original Release Date: 1/1/2006
Re-Release Date: 3/6/2006
Genres: Blues, Folk, Special Interest, Pop, Rock
Styles: Contemporary Blues, Electric Blues, Acoustic Blues, Contemporary Folk, Poetry, Spoken Word & Interviews
Number of Discs: 2
SwapaCD Credits: 2
UPC: 646315716627

Synopsis

Album Description

Beat generation poet Allen Ginsberg was also a singer/songwriter who was encouraged to write and record by none other than Bob Dylan, who took Allen into the studio his first ever music recordings. Those 1971 recordings with Dylan, as well as sessions from 1976 with members of Dylan's Rolling Thunder Review band produced by maverick John Hammond (Billie Holiday, Aretha Franklin and Bruce Springsteen), and additional recordings from 1981 were gathered together and released as the double LP First Blues in 1983. Many of the recordings feature cello player Arthur Russell (known for his 1970's Flying Hearts band and his ground-breaking 1980's solo recordings). First time on CD, with 24 songs on 2 discs. 2006.

CD Reviews

Best guest award is to : Dylan

Freddy Ordonez Araque | Caracas, Venezuela | 11/10/2006

(5 out of 5 stars)

"it's a great work of Allen Ginsberg with Bob Dylan in many songs,..., ironic songs, protest songs, poetic songs, amazing"