420 Café –
Tuesday, March 17, 2009 @ 10:00-11:00 pm [20-0919]
Amsterdam, nl.
I arrived in Amsterdam by train from London on St. Patrick’s Day evening just in time to meet a pair of brilliant young women named Monika Berenyi and Cecilia Costa who are heading up a Dutch art project centered on an intensive investigation into the poetry of Detroit made during 1960-1975 and its roots in the urban environment of the Motor City. Their group of 15 students is about to leave for its residency in Detroit to conduct serious research and record oral histories with many of the poets who made Detroit City Poetry what is was and is. My testimony at the 420 Café constituted their first interview and provides the text for this episode of the radio show, complemented by Motor City music from Martha & the Vandellas, John Sinclair & His Blues Scholars, Joe L., Lyman Woodard & the Artists Workshop Music Ensemble, and the MC-5.
Playlist #262
[00] RFA Tag > Unabonger: Opening Tokes
[01] Opening Music: Martha & the Vandellas: Dancing in the Streets
[02] John Sinclair Conversation with Monika & Cecilia re: Detroit City Poetry
[03] John Sinclair & His Blues Scholars: bags’ groove
[04] John Sinclair Conversation with Monika & Cecilia
[05] John Sinclair & His Blues Scholars: nutty
[05] John Sinclair Conversation with Monika & Cecilia
[06] Joe L.: Please Mr. Foreman
[07] John Sinclair Conversation with Monika & Cecilia
[08] Lyman Woodard & Workshop Music Ensemble: The Pimp’s Vision
[09] John Sinclair Conversation with Monika & Cecilia
[10] John Sinclair & His Blues Scholars: The Screamers
[11] Closing Music: MC-5: Looking at You
[09] Baba Israel Outro > RFA Tag
Hosted by John Sinclair for Radio Free Amsterdam
Produced, recorded, edited & assembled by John Sinclair
@ HeadPress Bunker, London, April 14, 2009
Special thanks to Monika Berenyi & Cecilia Costa, Sweet Jane, Steve Fly & the 420 Café, Dylan Harding & Nick Smith
© 2009 John Sinclair. All Rights Reserved.
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