Another Existential Day 1977
Created for a cartoon/memoir class last spring with David Lasky and Greg Stump. It’s a map of the themes that run through my new book 1977, coming from Ravenna Press in 2018.
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Ballads Under New Regime
Recovered the collaboration between Jed and me. Ballads Under New Regime. I wrote and read the poetry. Jed (Myers) created the music.
Written during the George W. Bush administration, we recorded the tracks at Jack Straw Studios in 2007. The ballads are transcribed in A History of Guns in the Family from Ravenna Press (2008).
Listen and download here:
Ballads Under New Regime (Bandcamp)
Ballads Under New Regime (SoundCloud)
We’re working on a Reprise incited by the new administration. Will keep you posted on progress.
1977: Mix Tape (Track 1)
Re-entry is an opening salvo to recall the feeling of the times as a starting point for writing a punk history of upstate NY and 1977.
Words by John Burgess. Samples by James “Starter” Nugent.
