Museo Arte Paolo Pini –
Saturday, June 23, 2007 at 6:00-7:00 pm[20-0718]
Milano, Italy.
The COX 18 Free Festival in Milano is staged this year on the spacious grounds of a former Catholic psychiatric facility that’s been converted into an experimental arts complex now known as Museo Arte Paolo Pini. COX 18 Press is about to bring out an Italian translation of my blues work titled THE DELTA SOUND, with the CD produced by Andre Williams glued in the back, and they’ve named the festival after my poem “We Just Change the Beat”—or in Italian, abbiamo solo cambiato il ritmo. My translator, Guiseppe “Pippo” Pipitone, and Marco Lorenzin conducted an interview about the book on the grounds of the Paolo Pini on Saturday evening with my guitarist Mark Ritsema chiming in from time to time, I recorded it on my little digital machine and, when I got to Rome, edited it together with some cuts from THE DELTA SOUND to make this program. That’s Jeff “Baby” Grand and Everette Eglin on lead & slide guitars, Bill Lynn on rhythm guitar, “Tricky Dick” Dixon or Mark Bingham on bass, Michael Voelker on drums, and the ladies from ELS on backing vocals with arrangements by the great Andre Williams.
Playlist #138
[01] John Sinclair & His Blues Scholars: We Just Change the Beat
[02] Long Conversation with John Sinclair & Guiseppe Pipitone re: FATTENING FROGS FOR SNAKES
[03] John Sinclair & His Blues Scholars: Cross Road Blues
[04] Long Conversation with John Sinclair & Guiseppe Pipitone re: FATTENING FROGS FOR SNAKES
[05] John Sinclair & His Blues Scholars: Pea Vine Blues
Hosted by John Sinclair for Radio Free Amsterdam
Recorded by John Sinclair at Museo Arte di Paolo Pini, Milano, June 16, 2007
Edited & assembled by John Sinclair at Forte Prenestino, Roma, June 28, 2007
Mastered & posted by Henk Botwinik
Executive Producer: John Sinclair
Sponsored by Hempshopper, Eat at Jo’s, COX 18 & Forte Prenestino
Special thanks to The Beat Goes On Festival, C.S.O.A. COX 18, Guiseppe “Pippo” Pipitone, Marco Lorenzin, Mark Ritsema, Antoniello “Rent” & Forte Prenestino
© 2007 John Sinclair
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