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Idris Speaks (video enhanced)
San Anselmo Reprise Questions in Llareggub Mawl a Marwnad Afan Kyle Similar Weather Sleep Timekeeper The Girls of Summer | Summer 2018 2000's, San Anselmo, CA Late `90s, Wales & Arizona May 2004, Phoenix area October 2015, Phoenix area `80s San Anselmo, CA Mid `90s, Glendale, AZ Late 2014, Phoenix area Early `90s, Glendale, AZ |
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| Idris Speaks Idris
Davies was a miner, teacher and poet who T.S. Eliot thought captured
the atmosphere of the 1926 General Strike better than anyone else. His
work received a welcome second look when Pete Seeger used a part of one
of his poems as a lyric for the 1965 folk song "Bells of Rhymney". The Pop group The Birds turned it into a major hit.
The poem is a monologue I wrote to accompany my version of the song that includes some of his actual words. |
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| San Anselmo Reprise Two
expatriates, at one time living near each other in Southern England,
then Northern California, meet from time to time to recollect, make
music, look forward, exchange dreams, bandage old and new wounds, and
seamlessly resume a friendship spanning over 40 years. There are always
major changes, but, at heart, the important things remain unchanged.
William Blake understood this.
"The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship."
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| Listen to San Anselmo Reprise performed by John Good. The musical accompaniment was composed/improvised and recorded in the same room in San Anselmo California, in which the poem was written, over a period (on and off) of many years. A. Hindson: Engineer and Percussion Assemblage J. Good: Flutes, Words, Whistles and Voice. |
| talking to Dylan Thomas...
Questions in Llareggub ...at the Boathouse
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| Listen to Questions in Llareggub performed by John Good. From the album From the First 1500 Years of Welsh Poetry. |
| Kelly and John the Boathouse, some time ago... |
| love and loss of childhood...
Mawl a Marwnad Afan In Praise and Lamentation for Afan |
| Listen to Mawl a Marwnad Afan sung by John Good. |
| the River Afan by David Good
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| getting over a loss...
Kyle ...creativity heals
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| Listen to John's take on Kyle. |
Kyle Harris | |
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| international spring...
Similar Weather |
| Listen to John's take on Similar Weather. |
| a midsummer night's dream...
Sleep |
| Listen to John's take on Sleep. |
| regulating the clock...
Timekeeper |
| Listen to John's take on Timekeeper. |
the maiden verbage...
The Girls of Summer |
| Listen to John's take on The Girls of Summer. |
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