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Kerouac: Kicks Joy Darkness (CD)

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DISC 1 for Kerouac: Kicks Joy Darkness (CD) Album By Various Artists
1   Kerouac - Morphine
2   Bowery Blues - Lydia Lunch
3   My Gang - Michael Stipe
4   Dream: "Us Kids Swim Off A Gray Pier" - Steven Tyler
5   Letter To William S. Burroughs & Ode To Jack - Hunter S. Thompson
6   Skid Row Wine - Maggie Estep/The Spitters
7   America's New Trinity Of Love: Dean, Brando, Presley - Richard Lewis
8   Dream: "On A Sunny Afternoon..." - Lawrence Ferlinghetti/Helium
9   MacDougal Street Blues - Jack Kerouac/Joe Strummer
10   Brooklyn Bridge Blues, The (Choruses 1-9) - Allen Ginsberg
11   Hymn - Eddie Vedder/Campbell 2000/Sadie 7
12   Old Western Movies - William Burroughs/Tomandandy
13   Silly Goofball Pomes - Juliana Hatfield
14   Moon, The - John Cale
15   "Madroad Driving..." - Johnny Depp/Come
16   "Have You Ever Seen Anyone Like Cody Pomeray? - Robert Hunter
17   Letter To John Clellon Holmes - Lee Ranaldo/Dana Colley
18   Pome On Doctor Sax - Anna Domino
19   Mexico Rooftop - Rob Buck/Danny Chauvin
20   Last Hotel, The - Patti Smith/Thurson Moore/Lenny Kaye
21   Running Through-Chinese Poem Song - Warren Zevon/Michael Wolff
22   Woman - Jim Carroll/Lee Ranaldo/Lenny Kaye/Anton Sanco
23   Mexican Loneliness - Matt Dillon/Joey Altruda/Joe Gonzales/Pablo Calogero
24   Angel Mine - Inger Lorre/Jeff Buckley
25   Brooklyn Bridge Blues, The (Chorus 10) - Eric Andersen
 

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Review

Entertainment Weekly (4/11/97, p.84) - "An assemblage of writers, actors, and musicians contribute to this unexpectedly robust collection of Saint Jack's lesser-known `pomes'..." - Rating: B+

Title Note

KEROUAC: KICKS JOY DARKNESS is a collection of readings from beat poet Jack Kerouac's oeuvre. Most of these readings have musical backing.

Engineers include: Mark Sandman, Lydia Lunch, Tom Lewis.

Producer Jim Sampas presents a sampling of Kerouac's writing styles, including "pomes" (short snippets of poetry), "blues" (longer, jazz-influenced choruses of poetry), and "dreams" (snapshots from his dreams). There are also four previously-unpublished pieces. Kerouac's words are set against a variety of musical backgrounds with results as diverse and alive as Kerouac's poetry and prose itself. The tone ranges from the reverence of John Cale's voice and atmospheric keyboard playing on "The Moon" to Maggie Estep's furious, emotional reading of "Skid Row Wine," on which she is backed by the heavy, dark, rock noise of the Spitters. Several actors lend their voices to KICKS JOY DARKNESS, including Johnny Depp and Matt Dillon, as well as numerous rock icons, a few of Kerouac's contemporaries and Kerouac himself, from a scratchy late 1950s recording of "MacDougal Street Blues," with a new, synthy musical accompaniment by ex-Clash frontman Joe Strummer.

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