Going Down The River In A Hayloft Coffin: The Evocative Years Of
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Don Farrell
Reviewed 2010-06-21
Reviewed 2010-06-21
spoken word, raspy/gravelly voice, great wordsmith set to low background music. FCC #8 fuck
from the notes: Going Down The River In A Hayloft Coffin: the evocative years of Robert Peters is a music poetry album featuring the illustrious poet Robert Peters and music composer Harlan Steinberger. The record includes forty nine poems that are strung with a twinge of Gothic & glaciated enchantments sequentially evoking how a poet thaws and carves out his destiny distancing himself from his primordial Wisconsin roots. The poems start off with winning tales of model Ts, berry picking, sexuality among North wood folks and other vivid backwood encounters. There are variances of deer hunting and fishing expeditions fleshed out. The sequence forges to the present covering eulogies to his beloveds and poignant elegies to the folks who were such integral part of the poet’s life. In the midst of these violent, visceral, celebratory, and elegant tales there’s a silver cord that keeps these images astonishingly alive with high voltage and renderable music and lyrics.
FCC #8 fuck D Farrell 06/2010
from the notes: Going Down The River In A Hayloft Coffin: the evocative years of Robert Peters is a music poetry album featuring the illustrious poet Robert Peters and music composer Harlan Steinberger. The record includes forty nine poems that are strung with a twinge of Gothic & glaciated enchantments sequentially evoking how a poet thaws and carves out his destiny distancing himself from his primordial Wisconsin roots. The poems start off with winning tales of model Ts, berry picking, sexuality among North wood folks and other vivid backwood encounters. There are variances of deer hunting and fishing expeditions fleshed out. The sequence forges to the present covering eulogies to his beloveds and poignant elegies to the folks who were such integral part of the poet’s life. In the midst of these violent, visceral, celebratory, and elegant tales there’s a silver cord that keeps these images astonishingly alive with high voltage and renderable music and lyrics.
FCC #8 fuck D Farrell 06/2010
Recent airplay
Traipsing Through A Cemetary
Music Casserole — Apr 27, 2013
Charting
2010-06-20 — 2010-08-22
Track listing
| 1. | Prologue | ||
| 2. | Mom's Friday Hair Ritual: 1930 | ||
| 3. | Dietrich In Wisconsin, 1934 | ||
| 4. | Snapshots 1935 | ||
| 5. | Cousin Albert | ||
| 6. | Frigates Of Illusion: Childhood | ||
| 7. | Picking Bluberries | ||
| 8. | Hiram Ewald | ||
| 9. | Garter Snake With Toad | ||
| 10. | Father, Son, Cousin Country Western Band | ||
| 11. | Adeline | ||
| 12. | Fine Points | ||
| 13. | Hare Blight | ||
| 14. | Rural Wisconsin Snapshots | ||
| 15. | Home-Made Saw-Rig | ||
| 16. | Wisconsin Deer-Hunting Tale: The Severed Foot | ||
| 17. | Arctic Nights, Wild Men, Venison, Etc. | ||
| 18. | Bivouac (Fort Jackson, Sc 1944) | ||
| 19. | So Far, Few Wolf Children Have Been Authenticated | ||
| 20. | Nude Father With Sleeping Son | ||
| 21. | Son | ||
| 22. | The Pet | ||
| 23. | Mountain Cataract | ||
| 24. | Separation Poem & On Being Awakened Too Early | ||
| 25. | Poet And Century Both Turn Geriatric | ||
| 26. | The Swallow Return To San Juan Capistrano | ||
| 27. | Traipsing Through A Cemetary | ||
| 28. | Cowboys At Reno | ||
| 29. | For Paul On His Birthday | ||
| 30. | While You Were Gone | ||
| 31. | My Son Returns To Japan | ||
| 32. | On The Night He Died They Sat Side By Side | ||
| 33. | Possum | ||
| 34. | Pomegranates | ||
| 35. | Howard Warner (Huntington Beach Artist) | ||
| 36. | Meditaiton On Skin | ||
| 37. | Mentally Challenged At The Orange County Fair | ||
| 38. | Memory Loss In A Parking Lot | ||
| 39. | How To Cook A Flamingo Old Roman Style | ||
| 40. | Dunwich, By The North Sea | ||
| 41. | Old Man Observes A Mall's Xmas Tree | ||
| 42. | Lakes District Lover | ||
| 43. | Vision Of Helen | ||
| 44. | Mary Perry | ||
| 45. | At Al Jolson's Tomb | ||
| 46. | I'm Now Eighty Four | ||
| 47. | Evocative Snippets | ||
| 48. | Heaven's Barbecued Passenger | ||
| 49. | How An Old Man Commemorates The Explorer |