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)

STEVIE WONDER TONIGHT ~

 

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

TRUE COLOR ~

 

R EA D   M E

Knopf  2026

IDA VITALE ~

 

R E A D   M E

    Point Zero Press

JOAN MITCHELL ~

 

R E A D   M E

    David Zwirner

     2020

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

RICARDO REIS (FERNANDO PESSOA) ~

 

O D E S (1914-1917)

107      [6 August 1923]

All I want of life is not to know it.

Anyone whom Fate has set down in life must accept

        The various successive forms

        Taken by substanceless life.

There is little point in believing to be eternal

The nothings with which, in our soul, we love

        Other poor nothings

        That [ . . . ]

Grateful to the gods, rather than for the uncertain

Possession of a certain Fantasy, let us take comfort

        In the fleeting energy

        Of instants that do not last.

_______________________

The Complete Works of Ricardo Reis

translated by Margaret Jull Costa & Patricio Ferrari

New Directions 2026

  for Bob, 5 August, love Sweetheart

~ Children in the Wood ~

THE RETURN OF JEAN FOLLAIN ~

 

Deep in the Back

Deep in the back

of the vast attic

where rats feed on poisoned wheat

a ray of sun lights up

the enormous pile of gazettes

out of which comes the musty odor

of a faded century

in the sky soon every light will go out.

Something

Called stone eater

a tiny worm consumes the slate

in which it hides

minute by minute time is

tightening its screws

shaken jewelry makes its sound

ants reside in a ruin

something

is always happening.

Edge of the Hearth

The outbuildings with no real use

are left to the rains

a peasant woman

has an edge of the black hearth

for a seat

the evening turns

in swirls of her breath

the wind in the hollow tree

why beings and things

she thinks

and not nothing.

Village Square

In the village square

at the foot of the church

one of the drinkers puts on

the kepi of his soldier friend as a joke

above them the hour strikes so loudly

they flinch

a horse that is unhitched

when it stamps the soft earth

radiates an abundant calm

they say to get there

leave before nightfall.

Quiet

There is that moment

of hearing water flowing underground

across the clay.

Quiet

the man says to the boy

holding his watch up to his ear

satisfied it ticks so well

in the middle of a tainted century.

A Night

Organ function to breaking down

the hand stays pressed

to the craggy wall

then the body with neither hearth nor home

continues on through a cold night

and starts forging words

to speak in the coming daylight.

___________________________

Earthly

translated  by Andrew Seguin

The Song Cave, 2025