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American Back Roads roundup April 2021
The time s right for another roundup of cool new releases â mostly Americana with a range of reissues.
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By Bruce Sylvester
The time s right for another roundup of cool new releases – mostly Americana with a range of reissues.
Rev. Peyton s Big Damn Band s
Dance Songs for Hard Times(Family Owned Records/Thirty Tigers). With frenzied vocals and backwoods juke joint guitar, “No Tellin When,” a Covid-era song of separation, comes across like a “Poor Boy a Long Way from Home” blues lament. The Rev. s intensity and urgency convey a trace of comedy when “I ll Pick You Up” hopes a broken-down car holds up all through a hot date. Slide guitar notes practically scream. For a secularized gospel touch, his woo-woos stretch back from Paul McCartney to Little Richard to Marion Williams. The press notes say the disc “was written by candlelight and then recorded using the best technology available … in the 1950s.” W
It was the poem that defined a generation. Howl, the defiantly gay manifesto that Allen Ginsberg read aloud for the first time at a Six Gallery public reading in San Francisco in 1955, railed against the life-snuffing hetero-oppressive conformity of the 1950s.
Filled with anger and rage, Howl bemoans the causes of addiction as it simultaneously celebrates Walt Whitman, Ginsberg s Beat Generation comrades, cum, Bach, jazz and jism, the Bible, and a litany of transgressive acts. Hearing it read aloud by Ginsberg, in a voice in which heartbreak and fury intermingle, is an experience like no other.
That the poem s coming out party, so to speak, came just a few months after the somewhat closeted Leonard Bernstein s 40-minute opera,