'Short, Sharp, Shook'
Lefty Bootlegs and Demos
Music, Words and Sounds
60 minutes
1992, cassette only release. Ghetto for a load of 'political' songs and joyous soundbites. Live and porta-studio stuff. A review:
rogerm.net/press/ssspress.html
'Produced' by Joe Folk at the Broome Closet and Mighty Management, NYC 1992
Dedicated to Pacifica Radio Network, especially WBAI NY to which the artist contributes.
All songs © by Roger Manning
Art Because It's Made in Soho Publishing, ASCAP
Cover photo by Jack Dawkins
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Lyric database:
rogerm.net/roger_words
SIDE ONE:
[Initially this project consisted of the montage of songs and sounds that take up the first 20 minutes.]
- D.C. w/Lynelle E. 1/19/91
- WBAI, NYC
1) The Dallas Blues - taped by Jon F.
- D.C. 1/19/91 and WBAI soundbites
2) Wake Up and Smell the Blood Blues - bootlegged by Matt A. Johnson at Jacob's Run Wilmington NC
- Times Square 1/16/91
- Toll both N.J. turnpike and D.C. 1/26/91 w/Kristen J, Kristen A, Colleen M and 300,000 others
- Amy G on WBAI
3) The Pacifica Blues - taped at Wetlands NYC by Kristen J
- WBAI w/Fred G and Paula
- WBAI w/Delphine B and Paul D
4) Tompkins Square Blues #99 - taped by Tim at Gargoyle Mechaninique, NYC
-- [End of the original 20 minute piece] --
5) Real Estate Blues
6) East 8th Street Blues
7) 13th Street Blues
- WBAI w/Paul D
8) East 8th Street Blues #2
SIDE TWO:
- Percussive thing w/Evil Jim Friendly, WBAI soundbites, Fran L of L.E.S.
- Caller on WBAI
9) Fare Well Loisaida Blues
10) New Bourgeois Blues
- on WBAI w/caller and Fred G
11) Radical Blues - w/Evil Jim
- WBAI caller
12) C.0. Blues
13) West Valley Blues #2 - taped by Sander H at Gargoyle Mechanique NYC with Fred H on WSPQ Springville NY
14) Hitch hiker's Blues #2
15) A White House Blues
16) The Annex Blues - taped the Cat's Cradle NC, Caleb on sound
17) Lefty Rhetoric Blues (tape flip version) WBAI w/Fred G, taped by Steve R
- To Folk or to 'anti-folk'? - NYC 7/90
released October 6, 2015