Monday, December 25, 2023

BOB DYLAN ~

 




THE DOORS ~

 



TWIN STARS OF THENCE (SUN RA) ~

 



Lanquidity (Definitive Edition)



MARY McCASLIN ~

 




FRANKIE SMITH ~



 



DEE CLARK ~

 






AMELIE ~

 




THE TENNESSEE STUD ~

 




COUNTRY & MIDWESTERN ~

 


R E A D    M E


University of Chicago Press

2023



IF 6 WAS A 9 ~

 




LINK WRAY ~

 




LITTLE WALTER FOREVER ~

 




WOODY GUTHRIE (BILLY BRAGG & WILCO) ~

 




LOS LOBOS ~

 




LYDIA MENDOZA ~

 




CREAM ~

 




DUSTY DUSTY DUSTY ~

 





JOE BROWN ~

 




DAVID CROSBY ~

 




RAMBLIN' JACK ELLIOTT ~

 


DUKE ROBILLARD ~



 



STEVE YOUNG ~

 




JESSE WINCHESTER ~

 




BARBARA DANE ~

 




DUKE ELLINGTON ~

 





BILLIE HOLIDAY & LESTER YOUNG ~

 




BILLIE HOLIDAY & LESTER YOUNG ~

 




CHARLIE RICH ~


 


Cesária Evora ~

 




JOHN COLTRANE (ALABAMA) ~

 





BOBBY BLUE BLAND ~

 




PJ HARVEY & THOM YORKE ~

 




PJ HARVEY ~

 




PJ HARVEY ~

 




MAGIC MOMENTS ( PERRY COMO ) ~

 






NINA SIMONE ~

 




DEAN MARTIN ~

 




PEARLS BEFORE SWINE ~

 




VAN MORRISON ~

 




THE LAST TIME ~

 




MERCY, MERCY ~

 




ROLLING STONES ~ ROUTE 66 ~

 




Sunday, December 24, 2023

WATCH THE DOG ~

 


Colombian Mountain Madness

WAY OUT THERE ~

 



    Pete Seeger & Arlo Guthrie



Saturday, December 23, 2023

JIM DODGE ~

 




Shoeing the Centipede


You don't need a high I.Q.

to write a haiku,

and doggonit

a sonnet

just ain't that tough.

Free verse? Shit,

a brain-damaged woodpecker

can write that stuff,

and sure as snowflakes melt in Hell

you can write a villanelle

by finding two strong lines that rhyme

and sticking with them.

Plus, just between us,

a sestina is

pretty much six words

that can go either way,

while a roundelay

is mainly refrain.

And honestly,

most any turd

off the street

can create an iambic beat

using words as crude

as duh and cat.

Let those rummy critics quibble

in polysyllables

and wave their paper hats:

writing poems isn't hard.

What's hard, what elevates

you to a bona fide bard,

what summons new colors from the sun,

is writing a great one.



_______________

Jim Dodge

Always Something

Limberlost Press

Rick & Rosemary Ardinger

17 Canyon Trail

Boise, Idaho 83716

www. Limberlostpress.com


one of the finest books of poems for 2023

or any year