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Fantastic show with the Memphis legend JACK OBLIVIAN this Friday at MorningBell. Only a few weeks old & this great store is already doing amazing things.
Jack Oblivian on Facebook
Jack Obivian Myspace
MorningBell Records & Studio of Jackson, Miss.
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11×14, ink on cardstock, Feb. 24-28, 2012
Title: LA PRINCESSE S’ENNUIE
Art: GORJUS REX
Bands: LIVER MOUSSE
BLACKFOOT GYPSIES
Locale: OLE TAVERN
Hey Leonard Cohen
You look good in the picture frame
up on the wall
in this cold tile bathroom.
Don’t think me rude, you’re in
good company—Tattoo You & a
velvet King. I used to have a
photo of Roy’s but the shower’d
wrinkle it in the summertime.
Now it’s always wrinkled.
Nice chinos, Leonard Cohen, you
don’t know it but you’d blend on
the Square after the LSU game,
even with that crewcut.
(We’ll say you did it
on a dare).
I didn’t banish you here for spite &
it’s not that I don’t wanna hear
you live from ’72 (in Brussels,
London, Paris, Berlin, Isle of
Wight, and ‘Room in Tennessee’)
it’s that the sleeve didn’t have
the damned LP when I picked it up
at the Salvation Army.
It’s done me enough good over the years,
holding down the wall by
the towel rack, you smoking that
ragged cigarillo. Won me $26 in a midnight
bet at a Living Better Electrically show
at Martin’s, because damn right you had
Charlie Daniels playing fiddle in yr band in
1972, in Brussels, in London,
and in Paris, too.
The seventh volume of the Sandusky Review is about the one true royal son of Tupelo: how he lived, who he loved, and how he died. (And how he got his teeth fixed).
Five poems and four illustrations featuring the Blue Moon Boys and the Memphis Mafia. Available at Sneaky Beans in Jackson, Miss. & by mail order from yours truly. 130 copies, and when they’re gone, they’re gone.
Here’s the scratchboard cover for my new all-King zine RIP IT UP. A clutch of poems about the Hillbilly Cat & drawings of Scotty, Bill, Sonny & Red.
Coming along slowly but surely—aimed for November but kept finding things I wanted to write about—like M-16s in garbage cans and Big Boy Crudup calling him Elvin Preston.
The Overnight Lows at Sam’s Lounge, Jackson, Miss.
