Released April 8, 1997 Length 79:30 Producer Jim Sampas | Genre Spoken Word | |
Kerouac: Kicks Joy Darkness is a 1997 spoken word tribute album featuring late Beat Generation writer Jack Kerouac's work performed by various artists. Notable performers include: Michael Stipe, Allen Ginsberg, Hunter S. Thompson, Johnny Depp, and Patti Smith. Ginsberg's performance of "The Brooklyn Bridge Blues" is missing the final tenth chorus. This was due to a faxing machine error which stuck the last pages together when Ginsberg was faxed the lyrics. The final chorus is read by Eric Andersen instead, recorded on a DAT recorder from the Brooklyn Bridge.
Contents
Track listing
All poetry/lyrics written by Jack Kerouac
- Kerouac (Morphine) - 2:54
- Bowery Blues (Lydia Lunch) - 1:55
- My Gang (Michael Stipe) - 2:23
- Dream: "Us Kids Swim off a Gray Pier..." (Steven Tyler) - 1:34
- Letter to William S. Burroughs & Ode to Jack Hunter S. Thompson (Hunter S. Thompson) - 1:41
- Skid Row Wine (Maggie Estep, The Spitters) - 5:51
- America's New Trinity of Love: Dean, Brando, Presley (Richard Lewis) - 6:06
- Dream: "On a Sunny Afternoon..." (Lawrence Ferlinghetti & Helium) - 2:04
- MacDougal Street Blues (Jack Kerouac, Joe Strummer) - 2:48
- The Brooklyn Bridge Blues (Choruses 1-9) (Allen Ginsberg) - 5:47
- Hymn (Eddie Vedder, Campbell 2000, Sadie 7) - 3:12
- Old Western Movies (William S. Burroughs, Tomandandy) - 2:32
- Silly Goofball Poems (Juliana Hatfield) - 4:02
- The Moon (John Cale) - 3:01
- Madroad Driving (Johnny Depp, Come) - 3:28
- Have You Ever Seen Anyone Like Cody Pomeray? (Robert Hunter) - 3:48
- Letter to John Clellon Holmes (Lee Ranaldo, Dana Colley) - 2:36
- Pome on Doctor Sax (Anna Domino) - 1:45
- Mexico Rooftop (Robert Buck, Danny Chauvin) - 1:25
- The Last Hotel (Patti Smith, Thurston Moore, Lenny Kaye) - 3:47
- Running Through-Chinese Poem Song (Warren Zevon, Michael Wolff) - 3:34
- Woman (Jim Carroll, Lee Ranaldo, Lenny Kaye) - 2:25
- Loneliness, Mexican (Matt Dillon, Joey Altruda, Joe Gonzalez) - 3:19
- Angel Mine (Inger Lorre, Jeff Buckley) - 5:24
- The Brooklyn Bridge Blues (Chorus 10) (Eric Andersen) - 1:59
Personnel
References
Kerouac: Kicks Joy Darkness Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA