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Various Artists
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Allen Ginsberg's The Fall of America: A 50th Anniversary Musical Tribute
Label
Allen Ginsberg Records
Catalogue Number
560903
Release Date
5 February 2021

Thurston Moore, Lee Ranaldo, Yo La Tengo, The Handsome Family, Devendra Banhart and a host more interpret the poems of Allen Ginsberg, many featuring the voice of Ginsberg.

Various artists musically interpret poems from "The Fall of America: Poems of these States 1965-1971" on this 50th Anniversary Tribute to Allen Ginsberg's The Fall of America. Featuring Yo La Tengo, Shintaro Sakamoto, Angelique Kidjo, Thurston Moore, Lee Ranaldo, Devendra Banhart, Bill Frisell, Andrew Bird and more, with the original voice recordings of Ginsberg on many tracks.

"Fall of America Poems published by City Lights Books in San Francisco, covers the years 1965- 1971 when Allen is crisscrossing the country, exploring a system of composition by narrating into the portable reel to reel Uher that Bob Dylan had gifted him. In 1965, Ginsberg began planning an ambitious project, a book of thematically connected poems, a collection that "discovered" America in poetry similar to the way Kerouac' s On the Road had explored the country in prose. The Vietnam War would be a constant presence overhanging Ginsberg's travel writings like a darkening shadow affecting daily life in the country. It would be a study of contrasts: natural beauty slammed up against an ugliness that rose out of the tensions of violence. The public' s polarized dialogue over Vietnam and, earlier in the decade, the civil"

  • Michael Schumacher, from introduction to The Fall of America Journals 1965-1971.

Digital Tracklist

  1. 1 Elegy for Neil Cassady (feat. Allen Ginsberg) Scanner 4:18 Buy

    Elegy for Neil Cassady (feat. Allen Ginsberg)

  2. 2 Hiway Poesy Painted Desert to Albuquerque (feat. Allen Ginsberg) The Handsome Family 5:16 Buy

    Hiway Poesy Painted Desert to Albuquerque (feat. Allen Ginsberg)

  3. 3 Manhattan Thirties Flash Shintaro Sakamoto 3:43 Buy

    Manhattan Thirties Flash

  4. 4 Hum Bom (feat. Allen Ginsberg) Lee Ranaldo / Thurston Moore 4:02 Buy

    Hum Bom (feat. Allen Ginsberg)

  5. 5 War Profit Litany Aliah Rosenthal 1:42 Buy

    War Profit Litany

  6. 6 Memory Garden Ed Sanders 4:27 Buy
  7. 7 Drones Du Jour (First Party at Kesey's with Hell's Angels) (feat. Allen Ginsberg) Mickey Hart 1:23 Buy

    Drones Du Jour (First Party at Kesey's with Hell's Angels) (feat. Allen Ginsberg)

  8. 8 An Open Window On Chicago (feat. Allen Ginsberg) ethereal_interface 4:22 Buy

    An Open Window On Chicago (feat. Allen Ginsberg)

  9. 9 Death On All Fronts (Ameirca Is Falling) Howie B / Gavin Friday 4:00 Buy

    Death On All Fronts (Ameirca Is Falling)

  10. 10 A Prophecy (feat. Allen Ginsberg) Disco Pusher 3:28 Buy

    A Prophecy (feat. Allen Ginsberg)

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