Take Em As They Come: Much Depends Upon Bushwick Bill, Merle Haggard, More Poems about Money, Survivor's Songs, and Pallbearer's Clubs

Thursday, January 19, 2023

Much Depends Upon Bushwick Bill, Merle Haggard, More Poems about Money, Survivor's Songs, and Pallbearer's Clubs

I used to write book reviews in my blog, and I may still occasionally do so. However, lately, it seems if I really want to help a book out, it needs to go on the Amazon page.

Don't get it twisted, when we can figure out a way to replace Amazon's hold on almost everything we read, watch, or listen to, I'm there. I'm down for the conversation right now, just like I'd like to have one about Ticketmaster and LiveNation and why regular folks can't afford big concerts anymore.

That said, more eyes will see these reviews on Amazon than anywhere else, and Amazon won't abide the duplicate posting here. So, I'll post the links. I thought it was some of my better work this past year.

I started with Charles Hughes' indispensable work on Bushwick Bill--https://www.amazon.com/gp/customer-reviews/R26OTDF0WBNHKB/ref=cm_cr_dp_d_rvw_ttl?ie=UTF8&ASIN=B0BS4F9MKD

Before moving to David Cantwell's perfect reworking and expansion of his book The Running Kind: Listening to the Music of Merle Haggard-- https://www.amazon.com/gp/customer-reviews/R22A4355KPXOPR?ref=pf_ov_at_pdctrvw_srp

And Daniel Wolff's latest, one-of-a-kind and crucially important More Poems About Money--