Category: blues

  • Police Horse Blues

    Police Horse Blues by Steve Fly

    I woke up one morning

    with a horse in my bed

    after a hard nights work

    this is what she said:

    I don’t wanna work for those police no more

    Oh no, i just don’t wanna do it

    I wanna roam in the lush fileds and grass

    not bust up unions for Norman Tebbit

    So i brushed up my horse

    and took her round’ the course

    she ran like the wind

    and then she said at the end

    I don’t wanna work for the Police no more

    they just treat me like a pig

    i don’t belong in the city at all anymore baby

    like a bear don’t belong in a wig

    _

    Then the cops came and got her

    carted her off with their trotter

    now she’s back on the beat

    stompin’ heads with shoes on her feet

    Oh lord, that horse don’t wanna work for the police no more

    that horse just wants to run free

    if it was up to me honey

    I’d free dogs from the clutches too,

    let em’ all be.

    –Steve fly
    Amsterdam. Wednesday 15th May.

    Inspired by seeing two police horses foaming at mouth while on my way home from work today. Poor bastards, i thought. 

  • JOHN SINCLAIR & SHARING COUNTER-CULTURE

    The epic & encyclopedic – back catalogue – of music and writings from John Sinclair, will soon be available for – digital download – and SHARED’ availability. Many of his works have been tragically lost, to both personal and national disasters of one kind or another; other works have been miss-placed and kept in storage for a long long time, and, like any other great archeological anthropological discovery from the African heartlands – the opening of the JOHN SINCLAIR archives and vaults provides a rich resource of counter-cultural gems and treasures, useful feedback for all humanity to process.

    So, i thought i could contribute a little something in the way of a hyperlinked guide to John Sinclair in cyberspace, and the places and spaces you can find his footprints and fresh air. I will also begin the work on his recommended reading/listening list from the back of GUITAR ARMY.

    http://www.radiofreeamsterdam.com/

    http://johnsinclair.us/10for2/

    http://www.youtube.com/user/johnsinclairtv

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Sinclair_(poet)

    http://www.luminist.org/archives/marijuana.htm

    http://arborwiki.org/city/John_Sinclair

    DETROIT LIFE: JOHN SINCLAIR AND HIS MOTOR CITY SCHOLARS.

    IT’S ALL GOOD: A JOHN SINCLAIR READER


    FATTENING FROGS FOR SNAKES: DELTA SOUND SUITE. (BOOK)

    DON’T START ME TO TALKIN’: FATTENING FROGS FOR SNAKES.

    F.F.F.S. REVIEW IN ROLLINGSTONE.

    recordings:
    Detroit Life with the Motor City Blues Scholars (No Cover Records, 2009)
    Tearing Down the Shrine of Truth & Beauty with the Pinkeye Orchestra (LocoGnossis Records, 2008)
    Fattening Frogs For Snakes, Volume 3: Don’t Start Me To Talking (Big Chief/Electric Catfish Records, 2008)
    crisscross with Mark Ritsema (Big Chief Records, 2006)
    Fattening Frogs For Snakes, Volume 2: Country Blues (No Cover Records, 2005)
    No Money Down: John Sinclair’s Greatest Hits, Volume 1 (Big Chief Records, 2004)
    Peyote Mind with Monster Island (Book Beat, 2003)
    Knock Out with Lange Frans & Baas B (420 Café, 2002)
    Fattening Frogs For Snakes, Volume 1: The Delta Sound (Okra-ToneRecords, 2002)
    It’s All Good with Fluxedo Junction (Fluxedo, 2000)
    Underground Issues (Spy Boy Records, 2000)
    White Buffalo Prayer with Wayne Kramer & the Blues Scholars (Spy Boy, 2000)
    Full Circle with Wayne Kramer & the Blues Scholars (Alive Records, 1997)
    thelonious:a book of monk—volume one (New Alliance Records, 1996)
    If I Could Be With You—John Sinclair & Ed Moss with the Society Jazz Orchestra (Schoolkids Records,1996)
    Full Moon Night—John Sinclair & His Blues Scholars (Total Energy Records, 1995)
    “flyright”—a monk suite,with pianist Ed Moss (1991, unissued)
    books & publicationsIT’S ALL GOOD: A John Sinclair Reader (Headpress, 2008)
    GUITAR ARMY (2nd Edition, Feral House/Process Books, 2007)
    GUITAR ARMY (Italian Translation, Stampa Alternativa, 2007)
    Va Tutto Bene / It’s All Good (Stampa Alternativa, 2006)i mean you: a book for penny (Palomar Press, 2005)
    Peyote Mind & After (Book Beat, 2003)
    Fattening Frogs For Snakes: Delta Sound Suite (Surregional Press, 2002)
    Full Circle (Minimal Press,1997)
    “flyright”—a monk suite (1991, unpublished)
    “We Just Change The Beat”: Selected Poems (Ridgeway Press, 1988)
    thelonious: a book of monk—volume one (1985, unpublished)
    GUITAR ARMY: Street Writings/Prison Writings, Douglas/World, 1972Music & Politics (with Robert Levin), Jazz & Pop/World, 1971
    Meditations: A Suite For John Coltrane (Artists Workshop Press, 1967)
    The Poem For Warner Stringfellow (Artists Workshop Press, 1966)
    FIRE MUSIC: a record (Artists Workshop Press, 1966)This Is Our Music (Artists Workshop Press, 1965)

    http://www.headpress.com/JohnSinclair.aspx

    “John Sinclair is a huge lover with masses of curly black hair flowing all over his head and shoulders. . . He and his White Panther brothers and sisters from Ann Arbor, Michigan are the most alive force in the whole Midwest. They turn on thousands of kids each week to their own beauty and build them into warriors and artists of the new Nation. . . For this some bald-headed judge named Columbo sentenced John Sinclair to nine-and-a-half to ten years in the penitentiary at Jackson, Michigan.”
    — Abbie Hoffman
    Woodstock Nation (1969)

    JAMS (FROM GUITAR ARMY BY John Sinclair)

    ROCK AND ROLL

    KICK OUT THE JAMS – MC5 (Elektra)
    CHEAP THRILLS – Big Brother and Holding Company (Columbia)
    ARE YOU EXPERIENCED? – Jimi Hendrix Experience (Reprise)
    SMASH HITS – Jimi Hendrix Experience (Reprise)
    FREAK OUT – The Mothers of Invension HIGH TIME – MC5 (Atlantic)
    DETROIT – Mitch Rider (Paramount)
    OZONE – Commander Cody and His Lost Planet Airmen (Paramount)
    STOOGES – stooges (Elektra)
    FUN HOUSE – Stooges (Elekra)
    GRIS-GRIS – Doctor John (Atco)
    BABYLON – Dr. John (Atco)
    BRINGING IT ALL BACK HOME – Bob Dylan (Columbia)
    HIGHWAY 61 REVISITED – Bob Dylan (Columbia)
    BLONDE ON BLONDE – Bob Dylan (Columbia)
    JOHN WESLEY HARDING – Bob Dylan (Columbia)
    BEGGARS BANQUET – Rolling Stones (London)
    LET IT BLEED – Rolling Stones (London)
    STICKY FINGERS – Rolling Stones (Rolling Stones)
    REVOLVER – Beatles (Capitol)
    SERGENT PEPPER’S LONELY HEARTS CLUB BAND – Beatles (Capitol)
    BOOGIE WITH CANNED HEAT – Canned Heat (Liberty)
    SUNSHINE SUPERMAN – Donovan (Epic)
    MY GENERATION – Who (Decca)
    SAFE AS MILK – Captain Beefheart & his Magic Band (Buddha)
    THE FUGS (2nd Album) – Fugs (ESP-Disk’)
    WHITE HEAT WHITE LIGHT – Velvet Underground (MGM)
    JEFFERSON AIRPLANE TAKES OFF – Jefferson Airplane (RCA)
    VOLUNTEERS – Jefferson Airplane (RCA)
    THE GRATEFUL DEAD (1st Album) – Grateful Dead (Reprise)
    ELECRTIC MUSIC FOR THE MIND AND BODY – Country Joe & the Fish (Vanguard)
    LOVE (1st Album) – Love (Elektra)
    DA CAPO – Love (Elekra)
    THE DOORS (1st Album) – Doors (Elekra)
    FRESH CREAM – Cream (Atco)
    WHEELS OF FIRE – Cream (Atco)
    BLUESBREAKERS – John Mayall (London)
    VINCEBUS ERUPTUM – Blue Cheer (Phillips)
    SUNSET – The Rationals (Crewe)
    TRAVELLERS TALE – SRC (Capitol)
    MONGREL – Bob Seger (Capitol)
    SURVIVAL – Grand Funk Railroad (Capitol)
    E PLURIBUS FUNK – Grand Funk Railroad (Capitol)
    CREEDENCE CLEARWATER REVIVAL – Creedence Clearwater Revival (Fantasy)
    BAYOU COUNTRY – Creedence Clearwater Revival (Fantasy)
    SANDERS’ TRUCK SHOP – Ed Sanders (Warner)
    SPIRITS KNOW AND UNKNOWN – Leon Thomas (Flying Dutchman)
    EDGAR WINTER’S WHITE TRASH – Edgar Winter (Epic)
    LIVE – Johnny Winter and (Columbia)
    JOHNNY WINTER (1st Album) – Johnny Winter (Columbia)
    SLY & THE FAMILY STONE’S GREATEST HITS – Sly & the Family Stone (Epic)

    RHYTHM & BLUES

    HISTORY OF RHYTHM & BLUES (Volumes 1-4) – (Atlantic)
    PAUL BUTTERFIELD BLUES BAND – (!st Album) – Paul Butterfield (Elekra)
    THE RESURRECTION OF PIGBOY CRABSHAW – Paul Butterfield (Elekra)
    J. GEILS BAND – (Elekra)
    ELMORE JAMES – Elmore James (Bell)
    CHUCK BERRY’S GOLDEN DECADE – Chuck Berry (Chess)
    16 GREATEST HITS – Bo Diddley (Chess)
    THE BEST OF MUDDY WATERS – Muddy Waters (Chess)
    ELECTRIC MUD – Muddy Waters (Chess)
    MOANIN’ IN THE MOONLIGHT – Howlin’ Wolf (Chess)
    THE LONDON SESSIONS – Howlin’ Wolf (Chess)
    16 GREATEST HITS – B.B King (Crown)
    JAMES BROWN LIVE AT THE APOLLO (Vol. 1) – James Brown (King)
    BOBBY BLUE BLAND’S GREATEST HITS – Bobby Blue Bland (Duke)
    HOUSE OF THE BLUES – John Lee Hooker (Checker)
    URBAN BLUES -John Lee Hooker (ABC)
    SERVE YOU RIGHT TO SUFFER -John Lee Hooker (Impulse)
    I’M JIMMY REED – Jimmy Reed (Veejay)
    THE JIMMY REED STORY -Jimmy Reed (Atlantic)
    OTIS READING IN EUROPE – Otis Reading (Atlantic)
    ARETHA’S GOLD – Aretha Franklin (Atlantic)
    CHICAGO/THE BLUES/TODAY – (3 vOLUMES) – (Vanguard)
    DETROIT BLUES – (BLUES CLASSICS)
    GOLDEN GOODIES (Volumes 2,3,6,7,12) – (Roulette)
    LIGHTIN’ IN NEW YORK – Lightning Hopkins (Candid/Barnaby)
    WEST SIDE SOUL – Magic Sam (Delmark)
    HOODOO MAN BLUES – Junior Wells (Delmark)
    OTIS SPAN IS THE BLUES – Otis Span (Candid/Barnaby)
    THE BEST OF SONNY BOY WILLIAMSON – Sonny Boy Williamson (Chess)
    GREATEST HITS – Little Richard (Speciality)
    GREAT JUKEBOX HITS – Hank Ballard and the Midnighters (King)
    ALL AROUND THE WORLD – Little Willie John (King)
    I PUT A SPELL ON YOU – Screamin’ Jay Hawkins (Okeh)
    THE BEST OF LITTLE WALTER – Little Walter (Chess)
    GREATEST HITS FROM THE BEGINNING – The Miracles (Motown)
    GREATEST HITS – The Temptations (Motown)
    GREATEST HITS – Martha and the Vandellas (Motown)
    GREATEST HITS – The Four Tops (Motown)
    GREATEST HITS – Elaine Brown (Vault)

    SPOKEN

    DIG -Eldridge Cleaver
    MESSAGE TO THE GRASS ROOTS – Malcolm X (Afro-American Broadcasting Co.)
    BY ANY MEANS NECESSARY – Malcolm X (Douglas)
    THIS IS MADNESS – The Last Poets (Douglas)
    THE SICK HUMOR OF LENNY BRUCE – Lenny Bruce (Fantasy)
    WHAT I WAS ARRESTED FOR – Lenny Bruce (Douglas)
    I AM NOT A NUT, ELECT ME – Lenny Bruce (Fantasy)
    LENNY BRUCE AMERCA – Lenny Bruce (Fantasy)

    BERKELEY CONCERT – Lenny Bruce (Straight)
    AIN’T NO AMBULANCES FOR NO NIGGUS TONIGHT – Stanley Crouch (Flying Dutchman)
    SOUL AND SOLEDAD – Angela Davis (Flying Dutchman)
    HOWL & OTHER POEMS -Allen Ginsberg (Fantasy)
    A NIGHT IN SANTA RITA – Robert Scheer (Flying Dutchman)
    MURDER AT KENT STATE – Pete Hamill (Flying Dutchman)
    LORD BUCKLEY’S HITS – Lord Buckley (Wolrd Pacific)
    MASSACRE AT MY LAI – Pete Hamill (Flying Dutchman)

    NEW BLACK MUSIC


    NOTHING IS – Sun Ra (ESP-Disk’)
    THE HELIOCENTRIC WORLDS OF SUN RA – Sun Ra (Saturn Research)
    THE MAGIC CITY – Sun Ra (Saturn Research)
    ATLANTISSun Ra (Saturn Research)
    STRANGE STRINGS – Sun Ra (Saturn Research)
    A LOVE SUPREME – John Coltrane (Impulse)
    LIVE AT BIRDLAND – John Coltrane (Impulse)
    MEDITATIONS – John Coltrane (Impulse)
    SELFLESSNESS – John Coltrane (Impulse)
    KULU SE MAMA – John Coltrane (Impulse)
    COSMIC MUSIC – John Coltrane (Impulse)
    UNIT STRUCTURES – Cecil Taylor Unit (Blue Note)
    INTO THE HOT – Cecil Taylor & Gil Evans (Impulse)
    JAZZ COMPOSERS ORCHESTRA – Jazz Composers Orchestra (JCOA)
    TAUHID – Pharoah Sanders (Impulse)
    KARMA – Pharoah Sanders (Impulse)
    THEMBI – Pharoah Sanders (Impulse)
    FIRE MUSIC – Archie Shepp (Impulse)
    MAMA TOO TIGHT – Archie Shepp (Impulse)
    ORNETTE COLEMAN TOWN HALL CONCERT – Jazz Composers Orchestra (ESP-DISK)
    THIS IS OUR MUSIC – Ornette Coleman (Atlantic)
    ORNETTE ON TENOR – Ornette Coleman (Atlantic)
    FRIENDS AND NEIGHBOURS – Ornette Coleman (Flying Dutchman)
    BELLS – Albert Ayler (ESP-Disk)
    NEW GRASS – Albert Ayler ((Impulse)
    THE LACK SAINT & THE SINNER LADY – Charles Mingus (Impulse)
    MINGUS PRESENTS MINGUS – Charles Mingus (Candid/Barnaby)
    EVOLUTION – Grachan Moncur (Blue Note)
    LET FREEDOM RING – Jackie McLean (Blue Note)
    LIFE TIME – Tony Williams (Blue Note)
    OUT TO LUNCH – Eric Dolphy (Blue Note)
    OUT THERE – Eric Dolphy (Prestiege)
    IRON MAN – Eric Dolphy (Douglas)
    LIBERATION MUSIC ORCHESTRA – Charlie Haden (Impulse)
    THE THIRD WORLD – Gato Barbieri (Flying Dutchman)
    THE MARION BROWN QUINTET – Marion Brown (ESP-Disk)
    SONG FOR – Joseph Jarman (Delmark)
    AS IF IT WERE THE SEASONS – Joseph Jarman (Delmark)
    SOUND – Roscoe Mitchell (Delmark)
    LEVELS & DEGREES OF LIGHT – Richard Abrams (Delmark)
    HUMILITY IN THE LIGHT OF THE CREATOR – Maurice Mcintyre (Delmark)
    NUMBERS 1&2 – Lester Bowie (Nessa)
    CONGRIPTIOUS – Roscoe Mitchell (Nessa)
    COMPLETE COMMUNION – Don Cherry (Blue Note)
    SKETCHES OF SPAIN – Miles Davis (Columbia)
    KIND OF BLUE – Miles Davis (Columbia)
    MILESTONES – Miles Davis (Columbia)
    BITCHES BREW – Miles Davis (Columbia)
    MILES DAVIS AT THE FILMORE – Miles Davis (Columbia)
    “IS” – Chick Corea (Solid State)
    PATTI WATERS SINGS – Patti Waters (ESP-Disk’)
    BLACK WOMEN – Sonny Sharrock (Embryo)
    EVERYWHERE – Roswell Rudd (Impulse)
    COMPULSION – Andrew Hill (Blue Note)
    FRANK WRIGHT TRIO – Frank Wright (ESP-Disk)
    BURTON GREENE QUARTET – Burton Greene (ESP-Disk)
    WHY NOT – Marion Brown (ESP-Disk)
    THE GIANT IS AWAKENED – Horace Tapscott (Flying Dutchman)
    QUARTET – John Carter/Bobby Bradfoed (Flying Dutchman)
    MULTIDIRECTIONAL – Contemporary Jazz Quintet (Blue Note)

    BOOKS

    ITS ALL GOOD – John Sinclair (Headpress)
    FATTENING FROGS FOR SNAKES – John Sinclair (Headpress)
    GUITAR ARMY – JOHN SINCLAIR (Douglas Book Corporation)
    MUSIC AND POLITICS – John Sinclair and Robert Levin
    SHOTS – David Fenton
    TRIAL – Tom Hayden
    WEATHERMAN – edited by Harold Jacobs
    GETTING BUSTED – edited by Ross Firestone
    THE DRUG BUST – John Dominick
    FREE MARIUANA – Michael Aldrich
    FIRE! Writings from the Underground Press – Edited by Paul, jon & Carol
    THE CONSPIRACY – Chicago 8
    WE ARE EVERYWHERE – Jerry Rubin
    WOODSTOCK NATION – Abbie Hoffman
    REVOLUTION FOR THE HELL OF IT – Abbie Hoffman
    DO IT! – Jerry Rubin
    THE NEW LEFT: A Documentary History – edited by Massimo Teodori
    THE MOVEMENT TOWARD A NEW AMERICA – edited by Mitchell Goodman
    WHOLE EARTH CATALOGUE
    PSYCHEDELIC PRAYERS – Timothy Leary
    JAIL NOTES – Timothy Leary
    REVOLUTIONARY LETTERS – Diane Di Prima
    HOWL & OTHER POEMS – Allen Ginsberg
    PLANET NEWS – Allen Ginsberg
    NAKED LUNCH – William S. Burroughs
    THE SOFT MACHINE – William S. Burroughs
    NOVA EXPRESS – William S. Burroughs
    THE JOB – William S. Burroughs
    HUMAN UNIVERSE – Charles Olson
    MEAT SCIENCE ESSAYS – Michael Mclure
    DARK BROWN – Michael Mclure
    THE MAXIMUS POEMS – Charles Olson
    FOR LOVE – Robert Creely
    THE NEW AMERICAN POETRY 1945-1960 – Edited by Donald Allen
    PEACE EYE – Ed Sanders
    REBELLION & REPRESSION – Tom Hayden
    POT: A HANDBOOK OF MARIJUANA – John Rosevear
    ON THE ROAD – Jack Kerouac
    THE DHARMA BUMS – Jack Kerouac
    MOUNTAINS & RIVERS WITHOUT END – Gary Snyder
    EARTH HOUSE HOLD – Gary Snyder
    POISONED WHEAT – Michael Mclure
    BEEN DOWN SO LONG IT LOOKS LIKE UP TO ME – Richard Farina
    V. – Thomas Pynchon
    TROUT FISHING IN AMERICA – Richard Brautigan
    THE STRANGE ODYSSEY OF HOWARD POW! – Bill Hutton
    A HISTORY OF AMERIKA – Bill Hutton
    THE SUN – Jim Semark
    ONE FLEW OVER THE COOKOOS NEST – Ken Kessey
    ELECTRIC KOOL AID ACID TEST – Tom Wolfe
    REALLY THE BLUES – Mezz Mezzrow
    THE AIR-CONDITIONED NIGHTMARE – Henry Miller
    THE JOURNAL OF ALBION MOONLIGHT – Kenneth Patchen
    RED FLAG/BLACK FLAG – Patrick Seale & Maureen McConville
    SEIZE THE TIME – Bobby Seale
    THE GENIUS OF HUEY P. NEWTON
    ESSAYS FROM THE MINISTER OF DEFENCE – Huey P. Newton
    SOUL ON ICE – Eldridge Cleaver
    POST-PRISON WRITINGS AND SPEECHES – Eldridge Cleaver
    CONVERSATION WITH ELDRIDGE CLEAVER
    PALANTE – Michael Abramson and the Young Lords Party
    OUT THING IS DRUM – Kenny Cockrill & Mike Hamlin
    THE POLITICAL THOUGHT OF JAMES FOREMAN – James Foreman
    MALCOLM X SPEAKS
    THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF MALCOLM X
    DIE NIGGER DIE – H. Rap Brown
    STOKELY CARMCIHAEL
    SOLEDAD BROTHER – George Jackson
    IF THEY COME IN THE MORNING – Angela Davis
    THE SPOOK WHO SAT BY THE DOOR – Sam Greenlee
    BLUES PEOPLE – LeRoi Jones
    BLACK MUSIC – LeRoi Jones
    FOUR LIVES IN BEBOP BUSINESS – A. B. Spellman
    SISTERHOOD IS POWERFUL – Edited By Robin Morgan
    THE FEMALE EUNUCH – Germaine Greer
    THE DIALECTIC OF SEX – Shulamith Firestone
    THE EMANCIPATION OF WOMEN – V.I Lenin
    DANCE THE EAGLE TO SLEEP – Marge Piery
    WOMEN IN SEXIST SOCIETY – Edited by Vivian Gornick & Barbara K. Moran
    THE WRETCHED OF THE EARTH – Frantz Fanon
    A DYING COLONIALISM – Frantz Fanon
    HANDBOOK OF REVOLUTIONARY WARFARE – Kwame Nkrumah
    QUOTATIONS FROM CHAIRMAN MAO TSE-TUNG
    LONG LIVE THE VICTORY OF PEOPLES WAR – Lin Piao
    SELECTED WORKS OF MAO TSE-TUNG (Vol. -4)
    ON PRACTICE – Mao Tse-Tung
    ON CONTRADICTION – Mao Tse-Tung
    MAO TSE-TUNG ON LITERATURE AND ART
    ESSENTIAL WORKS OF LENIN – edited by Henry M. Christman
    LEFT-WING COMMUNISM AN INFANTILE DISORDER – V.I Lenin
    THE COMMUNIST MANIFESTO – Karl Marx & Frederick Engles.
    THE ORIGIN OF THE FAMILY, PRIVATE PROPERTY & THE STATE – Frederick Engles
    RED STAR OVER CHINA – Edgar Snow
    HO CHI MINH ON REVOLUTION – Edited by Bernard B. Fall