RE: Spoken Word Artists

From: Mark Turner (nugroove@pacbell.net)
Date: Mon Oct 01 2001 - 18:29:47 CEST

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    > In light of this, I'm looking for other spoken word artists in the AJ
    > realm that are worth listening to. I know that there are artists such as
    > Sarah Jones and Saul Williams. I'd appreciate it if you could throw out
    > others. It can either have music or not. Thanks very much.

    Hi Velanche,

    Others have already beat me to the most obvious suggestions, but here's a
    compilation that ought to be required for your collection: OUR SOULS HAVE
    GROWN DEEP LIKE THE RIVERS, on Rhino Records. It's a double-CD that covers
    the whole spectrum of black poetry.

    Also, here's a playlist from an all spoken-word show I did back in 1999.
    You'll find some interesting things on it, no doubt:

    Artist Track Album
    ------ ----- -----
    Dr. Timothy Leary The Trip (excerpt) Turn On, Tune
                                                            In, Drop Out
    Eden Ahbez The Wanderer Eden's Island
    King Britt w/Ursula Circe (Jazzanova Remix) Tribes of Da
      Rucker Underground 5
    Little Annie I Think of You Short and Sweet
    Bama the Village Poet Welfare Slave Ghettos of the
                                                            Mind
    Gil Scott Heron The Revolution Will Not Be Small Talk at
                             Televised 125th & Lenox
    The Last Poets Niggers are Scared of The Last Poets
                             Revolution
    Sarah Webster Fabio Sweet Songs Jujus: Alchemy
                                                            of the Blues
    Tom Waits Emotional Weather Report Nighthawks at
                                                            the Diner
    Charles Bukowski Style Poems & Insults
    John Giorno Eating the Sky Nova Convention
    The Fire This Time At Least American Indian
                             People Know Exactly How
                             They've Been Fucked Around
    Paul Bowles (R.I.P.) The Sheltering Sky Baptism of
                                                            Solitude
    William S. Burroughs & The Hipster Be-Bop Junkie
      Gus Van Sant
    Allen Ginsberg Ode to Failure The Lion for
                                                            Real
    MC 900-Ft. Jesus Adventures in Failure Welcome to My
                                                            Dream
    Che View from a New Perspective Narcotic
    Twin Peaks "Diane..." The Tapes of
                                                            Agent Cooper
    Was (Not Was) The Sky's Ablaze Was (Not Was)
    The Watts Prophets Clowns All Around On the Street
                                                            in Watts
    The Watts Prophets Sell Your Soul/Take It/ Rappin' Black
                             Instruction/Amerikkka in a White
                                                            World
    The Watts Prophets When the 90's Came When the 90's
                                                            Came
    The Disposable Heroes Music and Politics Hypocrisy is
      of Hiphoprisy the Greatest
                                                            Luxury
    Sun Ra The Possibility of Altered Live at Sound-
                             Destiny (lecture excerpt) scape
    Bill Plummer & the Journey to the East Journey to the
      Cosmic Brotherhood East
    Lady Miss Kier Aphrodite Myth: Dreams of
                                                            the World
    The GTO's The Moche Monster Review Permanent
                                                            Damage
    Ann Magnuson Made for Radio The Uproar
                                                            Tapes
    Hakim Bey Boycott Cop Culture T.A.Z.
    Linton Kwesi Johnson Sonny's Lettah Forces of
                                                            Victory
    United Future Organi- Poetry and All That Jazz United Future
      zation Organization
    William S. Burroughs A Thanksgiving Prayer Dead City Radio
    Jeb Loy & the Oil Things That Made U.S. Wild Paarty
      Wells Sounds Vol. 1
    Producers for Bob Shopping is a Military Bob's Media
                             Operation Ecology
    Lydia Lunch Daddy Dearest The Uncensored
                                                            Lydia Lunch

    ...and that's "Jazzadelica," spoken-word stylee!

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    Mark Turner
    nugroove@pacbell.net

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