With so many reissues falling from the sky, it's time to throw a batch together and try the haiku review spin on them. Whoever said "first word best word" (Kerouac? Ginsberg?) is right.
Eric Andersen
The Essential Eric Andersen
Greenwich Village nights
song poet for the cosmos
seer of Bleecker
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Joseph Arthur
Redemption's Son (15th Anniversary Edition)
Akron to New York
a restless visionary
spray paint rock and roll
______________________________________________ Sandy Bull
Steel Tears & Endventions
From banjo to oud
no string ever left untouched
a hipster comes home
_______________________________________________ Jesse Ed Davis
Red Dirt Boogie - The Atco Recordings 1970-1972
Oklahoma man
guitar in hand way out west
hit spin cycle hard
_______________________________________________ The Gladiators
Symbol of Reality and Serious Thing
A mess of the best
the congo bongo is here
ha fe be a dread
___________________________________________ Grateful Dead
The Best of the Grateful Dead Live
The bus and the Bear
rainbow colors ev'rywhere
lively forever
____________________________________________ Screamin' Jay Hawkins
Are You One of Jay's Kids?
The Complete Bizarre Sessions 1990-1994
Constipation blues
and two white bones in his nose
Bizarro exit
___________________________________________ Malo
Latin Bugaloo The Warner Bros. Singles
Percussion and horns
turned up to 10 and set free
Malo es bueno
____________________________________________ The Lyman Family with Lisa Kindred
American Avatar
Up from Beacon Hill
Revolutionary trail
A mission begins
____________________________________________ Charles Mingus
Live at Montreux 1975
Bigger than a bass
Mingus man walks our white land
git it in yer' soul
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Geoff & Maria Muldaur
Pottery Pie and Sweet Potatoes
Husband and wife awe
Kitchen blues and other hues
Americana
_________________________________________ NRBQ
New Rhythm & Blues
a quintet of multiples
sonic octopus
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Buck Owens and the Buckaroos
The Complete Capitol Singles: 1967-1970
Bakersfield baron
looking beyond chicken-fried
pre-Hee Haw hoohay
_____________________________________________ Lou Reed
Animal Serenade
Sister Ray dawning
The Raven is calling Lou
to say his goodbye
_____________________________________________ Nino Tempo, Purveyor of Balladry
The Best of Nino Tempo on Atlantic
Cooler than a breeze
A saxophone for all ears
Deep Purple and green
_____________________________________________ Various Artists, Mojo
June 2018 - Big Sensations: 15 Floor Fillers
Pure soul gyrations
mysterious dark dancin'
to the dawn's first light
_____________________________________________ Various Artists, Technicolor Paradise
Rhum Rhapsodies & Other Exotic Delights
Conga drums bird calls
exotica 'rotica
fizzy mysteries
___________________________________________ Various Artists, Battleground Korea
Songs and Sounds of America’s Forgotten War
Deja vu coming
Korean sounds fill the skies
then we say goodbye
___________________________________________ Muddy Waters
The Best of Muddy Waters
Hollering bluesman
plugs into the universe
while the world erupts
___________________________________ Webb Wilder & the Beatnecks
Powerful Stuff!
Mississippi born
rock & roll wild man beat freak
grows big wears glasses
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Bill Bentley © 2018
Bill Bentley was the music writer and typesetter for the original Austin Sun. His book SMITHSONIAN ROCK & ROLL: LIVE AND UNSEEN was published by Smithsonian Books, October 2017.
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