Kerouac-Kicks Joy Darkness (1997)

Product Summary Label: Ryko UPC: 00014431032929 Release Date: 4/8/1997 Buy.com Sku: 60015905 Item#: MQMKPN Format:  CD Song Listing Disc 1 Song Title Sample 1. Kerouac - Morphine ~ Various Artists 2. Bowery Blues - Lydia Lunch ~ Various Artists 3. My Gang - Michael Stipe ~ Various Artists 4. Dream: "Us Kids Swim Off A Gray Pier" - Steven Tyler ~ Various Artists 5. Letter To William S. Burroughs & Ode To Jack - Hunter S Thompson ~ Various Artists 6. Skid Row Wine - Maggie Estep/The Spitters ~ Various Artists 7. America's New Trinity Of Love: Dean, Brando, Presley - Richard Lewis ~ Various Artists 8. Dream: "On A Sunny Afternoon..." - Lawrence Ferlinghetti/Helium ~ Various Artists 9. MacDougal Street Blues - Jack Kerouac/Joe Strummer ~ Various Artists 10. Brooklyn Bridge Blues, The (Choruses 1-9) - Allen Ginsberg ~ Various Artists 11. Hymn - Eddie Vedder/Campbell 2000/Sadie 7 ~ Various Artists 12. Old Western Movies - William Burroughs/Tomandandy ~ Various Artists 13. Silly Goofball Pomes - Juliana Hatfield ~ Various Artists 14. Moon, The - John Cale ~ Various Artists 15. "Madroad Driving..." - Johnny Depp/Come ~ Various Artists 16. "Have You Ever Seen Anyone Like Cody Pomeray? - Robert Hunter ~ Various Artists 17. Letter To John Clellon Holmes - Lee Ranaldo/Dana Colley ~ Various Artists 18. Pome On Doctor Sax - Anna Domino ~ Various Artists 19. Mexico Rooftop - Rob Buck/Danny Chauvin ~ Various Artists 20. Last Hotel, The - Patti Smith/Thurson Moore/Lenny Kaye ~ Various Artists 21. Running Through-Chinese Poem Song - Warren Zevon/Michael Wolff ~ Various Artists 22. Woman - Jim Carroll/Lee Ranaldo/Lenny Kaye/Anton Sanco ~ Various Artists 23. Mexican Loneliness - Matt Dillon/Joey Altruda/Joe Gonzales/Pablo Calogero ~ Various Artists 24. Angel Mine - Inger Lorre/Jeff Buckley ~ Various Artists 25. Brooklyn Bridge Blues, The (Chorus 10) - Eric Andersen ~ Various Artists   Album Notes and Credits Notes & Personnel Info KEROUAC: KICKS JOY DARKNESS is a collection of readings from beat poet Jack Kerouac's oeuvre. Most of these readings have musical backing. Engineers include: Mark Sandman, Lydia Lunch, Tom Lewis. Producer Jim Sampas presents a sampling of Kerouac's writing styles, including "pomes" (short snippets of poetry), "blues" (longer, jazz-influenced choruses of poetry), and "dreams" (snapshots from his dreams). There are also four previously-unpublished pieces. Kerouac's words are set against a variety of musical backgrounds with results as diverse and alive as Kerouac's poetry and prose itself. The tone ranges from the reverence of John Cale's voice and atmospheric keyboard playing on "The Moon" to Maggie Estep's furious, emotional reading of "Skid Row Wine," on which she is backed by the heavy, dark, rock noise of the Spitters. Several actors lend their voices to KICKS JOY DARKNESS, including Johnny Depp and Matt Dillon, as well as numerous rock icons, a few of Kerouac's contemporaries and Kerouac himself, from a scratchy late 1950s recording of "MacDougal Street Blues," with a new, synthy musical accompaniment by ex-Clash frontman Joe Strummer.   Technical Info Release Date : 04/08/1997 Original Release Date : 1997 Catalog ID : 10329 Label : Rykodisc (USA) Number of Discs : 1 Studio/Live : Studio Mono/Stereo : Stereo SPAR Code : n/a UPC : 00014431032929   Professional Reviews Entertainment Weekly (4/11/97, p.84) - "An assemblage of writers, actors, and musicians contribute to this unexpectedly robust collection of Saint Jack's lesser-known `pomes'..." - Rating: B   Product Image