Nine Bar Blues Parquet CourtsSheree Rene Thomas gives us a whirlpool of poem and story, a wild and strangeful breed of cosmology " Tyehimba Jess, Pulitzer Prize Winner, author of Olio and Leadbelly Read an excerpt of Nine Bar Blues here. Sheree Rene Thomas is a two headed woman, one crown, earthbound, rooted in the Mississippi Delta and the New Weird South, the other spinning far off into space. And if music is the embedded memory of a culture, then her remarkable fiction
- Includes the vinyl-only bonus track “Rocket Reducer No
"An unheard collection of rediscovered songs from the past recorded on ancient electro mechanical technology captures and unleashes the essence of something that could have been gone forever…" —Homer Grosvenor
after just a few hours of preparation
in conversation about the Blue Series book as featured on The Beats 1 broadcast
The lightly-reverbed
Pop music in Depression-era 2012 doesn’t come any more legit than in Duane’s capable hands
warm and sweet voice that channels the spirit of the blues greats and the grit of Billie Holiday
and a defiant
Eleanor and Matthew Friedberger formed The Fiery Furnaces in New York City in 2000
Oregon’s Blitzen Trapper is deep into a successful career as a modern folk-rock band
formed in the late ‘40s
It stands as a first-rate document of live rock 'n' roll that hits you like cold rain plus hot toddy
