Tuesday, August 18, 2026

MITSKI TONIGHT ~

 




All songs and vocals are by Mitski. The album was produced and engineered by Patrick Hyland and mastered by Bob Weston, with assistance on drums and logistics from Kris Bulakowski.



(TRAIN) DRIVER ~

 






   NYRB

   2025

Monday, August 17, 2026

DONOVAN TONIGHT ~

 



The Mountain · Donovan Slow Down World ℗ Donovan Discs LTD Released on: 1976-05-01 Producer: Donovan P. Leitch Composer: Derroll Adams Lyricist: Donovan



LINDA GREGG ~

 




We Manage Most When We Manage Small


What things are steadfast?  Not the birds,

Not the bride and groom who hurry

in their brevity to reach one another.

The stars do not blow away as we do.

The heavenly things ignite and freeze.

But not as my hair falls before you.

Fragile and momentary, we continue.

Fearing madness in all things huge

and their requiring.  Managing as thin light

on water. Managing only greetings

and farewells. We love a little, as the mice

huddle, as the goat leans against the hand.

As the lovers quickening, riding time.

Making safely in the moment.  This touching

home goes far. This fishing in the air.




Marriage and Midsummer's Night


It has been a long time now

since I stood in our dark room looking

across the court at my husband in her apartment.

Watched them make love.

She was perhaps more beautiful

from where I stood than to him.

I can say it now: she was like a vase

lit the way milky glass is lighted.

He looked more beautiful there

than I remember him the times

he entered my bed with the light behind.

It has been ten years since I sat

at the open window, my legs over the edge

and the knife close like a discarded idea.

Looked up at the Danish night,

that pale, pale sky where the birds that fly

at dawn flew on those days all night long,

black with the light behind.  They were caught

by their instincts, unable to end their flight.




Staying After


I grew up with horses and poems

when that was the time for that.

Then Ginsberg and Orlovsky

in the Fillmore West when

everybody was dancing.  I sat

in the balcony with my legs

pushed through the railing,

watching Janis Joplin sing.

Women have houses now, and children.

I live alone in a kind of luxury.

I wake when I feel like it,

read what Rilke wrote to Tsvetaeva.

At night I watch the apartments

whose windows are still lit

after midnight.  I fell in love.

I believed people.  And even now

I love the yellow light shining

down on the dirty brick wall.




Grinding the Lens


I am pulling myself together.

Don't want to go on a trip.

I have painted the living room white

and taken out most of my things.

The room has never been so empty.

Just now a banging thunder

and suddenly falling rain.

I leave the typewriter and run

outside in my nightgown and take

the cotton blanket off the line.

It is summer and I am in the middle

of my life.  Alone and happy.



______________________________

Linda Gregg

Poetry, April 2026


    photo: 1981



HAPPY BIRTHDAY ED SANDERS ~

 


August 17, 1939

Kansas City

Missouri

   photo c/o Raymond Foye




Saturday, August 15, 2026

L' Afrique Danse No. 1 TONIGHT ~

 




The First Of The African Labels "L' Afrique Danse" Compilations. Made Up Of 6 Previously Released 7" Singles By OK Jazz And Conga Succes With Various People Taking A Leading Role With Them.






BLACK-OWNED BOOKSTORES ~

 



R E A D   M E


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2025



Friday, August 14, 2026

Wednesday, August 12, 2026

New! Jonathan Greene at Longhouse ~

 

New! Jonathan Greene at Longhouse



Jonathan Greene

Thoughts to Survive Hard Times


~

L O N G H O U S E
 2026



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Tuesday, August 11, 2026

DERROLL ADAMS ALL DAY ~

 



01 Columbus Stockade Blues 0:00 02 Portland Town 2:52 03 The Cuckoo 4:58 04 Freight Train Blues 7:46 05 The Mountain 11:28 06 The Sky 14:58 07 The Valley 19:18 08 Curtains Of Night 23:45 09 Dixie Darling 28:33 10 Muleskinner Blues 31:04 11 24 Hours A Day 35:48 12 Epistle To Derroll 42:09 13 A Feather Fell 47:44 14 Banjo Man 52:06 15 The Rock 56:51 16 Memories 58:51 17 Lovesong 1:03:22 18 Willie Moore 1:06:25 19 The Rock 1:11:35 20 Goodbye Derrol, Goodbye Friend 1:13:10 21 A Profound Beautiful Sadness 1:15:54 Credits: #1 Arlo Guthrie (vocal, guitar), Donovan (vocal, guitar), Hans Theessink (vocal, guitar, mandolin), David Ferguson (upright bass) #2 Arlo Guthrie (vocal, guitar), Hans Theessink (guitar) #3 Ramblin' Jack Elliott (vocal, guitar), Arlo Guthrie (guitar) #4 Hans Theessink (vocal, guitar, banjo), Arlo Guthrie (guitar, backing vocal), Donovan (harmonica) #5 Donovan (vocal, guitar) #6 Allan Taylor (vocal, guitar, psalter) #7 Donovan (vocal), Hans Theessink (vocal, guitar, mandola), Arlo Guthrie (guitar + intro) #8 Youra Marcus (vocal, banjo), Yves Rouchaville (guitar, backing vocal) #9 Arlo Guthrie (vocal), Dolly Parton (vocal), Barney McKenna (banjo, backing vocal), David Ferguson (upright bass), John Sheahan (fiddle, backing vocal), Hans Theessink (guitar, backing vocal), Jack Clement (ukulele), #10 Arlo Guthrie (vocal, guitar), Ramblin' Jack Elliott (vocal, guitar) #11 Hans Theessink (vocal, guitar), Arlo Guthrie (guitar, foottap) #12 Donovan (vocal, guitar), Danny Thompson (double bass), Hans Theessink (dulcimer, banjo) #13 Ralph McTell (vocal, guitar) #14 Hans Theessink (slide guitar, backing vocal, banjo), Donovan (backing vocal), Allan Taylor (vocal, guitar) #15 Billy Connolly (vocal, banjo), Hans Theessink (guitar) #16 Happy Traum (vocal, guitar, banjo) #17 Donovan (vocal, acoustic guitar, lead guitar & Arp string ensemble), Leland Sklar (bass), Dave Hungate (bass), Jim Keltner (drums), Bobbye Hall (percussion) #18 Wizz Jones (vocal, guitar), Ralph McTell (banjo, backing vocal) #19 Ramblin' Jack Elliott (vocal, guitar) #20 Tucker Zimmerman (vocal, 12-string Guitar), Didier Bourguignon (banjo) #21 Derroll Adams (voice), Tucker Zimmerman (12-string guitar)

Monday, August 10, 2026

STEVIE WONDER TONIGHT ~

 


℗ 1982 Motown Records, a Division of UMG Recordings, Inc.


TRUE COLOR ~

 


R EA D   M E


Knopf  2026



Sunday, August 9, 2026

Saturday, August 8, 2026

Friday, August 7, 2026

ALEXANDRA WHITTINGHAM TONIGHT ~

 


℗ 2025 Universal Music Operations Limited

AFTER ANSEL ADAMS ~

 


Ansel Adams, Drama Rehearsal, Misty Morning, University of California, Irvine, 1966
Sweeney/Rubin Ansel Adams Fiat Lux Collection, California Museum of Photography, University of California, Riverside


R E A D   M E


     Damiani, 2021