| 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.
|