Guitar playing & Fingerpicking: Bert Jansch, Mississippi John Hurt "The Complete Vanguard Sessions", Ali Farka Toure "Radio Mali", John Fahey: "Requia"

Singing: Eric Burdon " Animalization", Sleepy John Estes " Broke & Hungry "
on Delmark, Gram Parsons, Van Morrison w/Them, Lucinda Williams "Ramblin",

Words & Music: Robert Johnson,Hank Williams, Prine, Jagger & Richards, Stax -Volt, Motown, Hi Records, Brecht"Threepenny Opera"...& the Best of Muddy Waters on Chess. Townes Van Zandt'Live at the Old Quarter", Nick Drake "Pink Moon",

Books: 'The Rattle Bag" edited by Heaney & Hughes, "Kaddish" by Allen Ginsberg,also: "Howl" & 'Planet Waves" by AG Whitman,Frost, Stevens, (I didnt go to school, so I still enjoy) Shakespeare(Hamlet & King Lear), Homer(Robert Fitzgerald tranlation) , Dante (Pinsky translation)...Heaneys " the Spirit Level" was important to me. Oh forget it theres too many...or just read ' A Drink With Shane MacGowan'...thats a good one. The Bible. James Joyce.


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