{"id":11440,"date":"2016-09-12T05:30:44","date_gmt":"2016-09-12T09:30:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/?p=11440"},"modified":"2016-09-12T07:54:50","modified_gmt":"2016-09-12T11:54:50","slug":"album-mini-review-allen-ginsberg-the-last-word-on-first-blues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2016\/09\/12\/album-mini-review-allen-ginsberg-the-last-word-on-first-blues\/","title":{"rendered":"Album Mini-review: Allen Ginsberg &#8212; The Last Word on First Blues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/ginsberg.jpg\" alt=\"ginsberg\" width=\"300\" height=\"409\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11441\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/ginsberg.jpg 300w, http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/ginsberg-220x300.jpg 220w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><br \/>\n<iframe style=\"float: right; padding: 10px; width:120px;height:240px;\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" src=\"\/\/ws-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/widgets\/q?ServiceVersion=20070822&#038;OneJS=1&#038;Operation=GetAdHtml&#038;MarketPlace=US&#038;source=ss&#038;ref=as_ss_li_til&#038;ad_type=product_link&#038;tracking_id=musoscribe-20&#038;marketplace=amazon&#038;region=US&#038;placement=B01DORGUTK&#038;asins=B01DORGUTK&#038;linkId=f502735bae1404295367f41f55d2d3c2&#038;show_border=true&#038;link_opens_in_new_window=true\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>File next to: <strong>William Burroughs<\/strong>, <strong>The Fugs<\/strong>, <strong>Lenny Bruce<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Beat poet Allen Ginsberg is a towering figure in America&#8217;s cultural history. Most of his recorded material is spoken word, but in 1983 he cut an album of music called <i>First Blues<\/i>. With a ramshackle folk backing from pals including <strong>Bob Dylan<\/strong>, <i>First Blues<\/i> is a kind of musical cousin to Dylan&#8217;s own <i>Basement Tapes<\/i>. Ginsberg&#8217;s songs are essentially musical versions of his poetry, and for the &#8217;80s, somewhat transgressive (\u201cYou Are My Dildo\u201d) and boundary-pushing (\u201cDope Fiend Blues\u201d). This lavishly packaged 3CD set reproduces the double LP and appends an extra disc of related material from the same era, including a pair of tunes performed live at NYC&#8217;s famed Folk City. Reissue producer <strong>Pat Thomas<\/strong> contributes an enlightening liner note essay that puts the entire package into its proper cultural and historical context.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>File next to: William Burroughs, The Fugs, Lenny Bruce Beat poet Allen Ginsberg is a towering figure in America&#8217;s cultural history. Most of his recorded material is spoken word, but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11441,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,49,71],"tags":[2824,1622],"class_list":["post-11440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-folk","category-new-release","category-spoken-word","tag-allen-ginsberg","tag-omnivore-recordings","cat-30-id","cat-49-id","cat-71-id","has_thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11440","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11440"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11440\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11442,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11440\/revisions\/11442"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11441"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}