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That Old Man
06:14
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Humphf
06:57
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"humphf"
for big red
they say monk
couldn't play the music. they say, monk,
he limited
by his own vision
& just can't play right. monk,
he too weird. his music
don't sound right, and he gets up
& dances
while he's playing,
like a jackleg preacher
at a revival meeting
in an old tent
in north Carolina.
they say monk sound too much
like a whorehouse piano player
from some pre-harlem ghetto
stuffed with back-woods renegades
& sporting women & gamblers,
street-level intellectuals. they say
monk, what is that shit
you trying to play, you just can't
do it that way,
you too way out baby,
that stuff ain't you. & monk
in his infinite knowledge
& wisdom, shoots a grin
from behind the piano,
wiggles his ass on the stool,
lays down another few bars
of utter genius,
turns it over to the tenor player
& rises to dance beside the piano,
some more of that old north carolina boogaloo
—oak park, mi may 30, 1984.
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Soul Eyes
02:46
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Smells Like Sulphur Here
08:19
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We Love Big Chief
19:01
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John Sinclair Detroit, Michigan
"Sinclair is an iconic figure of ‘60s counterculture, famous for, among other things, having co-founded the anti-racist
White Panther Party"
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"John has taken the Blues, many Blues, many Blues singers, their words, their feeling, their lives, their conditions, the places and traces of where they was and is.
--Amiri Baraka.
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