RESOUR> February 11 Proclaimed "American Song-Poem Day"

From: Gleason Sackmann <gleason@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: NetHappenings <nethappenings@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2003 11:40:35 -0600
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Recordings are artifacts that have a way of finding a
second life. That's what happened to song-poems when Tom
Ardolino, the drummer for the rock band NRBQ, picked up an
anthology album, "Variety Songs of '69," among the remnants
of a radio station at a hardware-suplus store in Kingston,
N.Y. After hearing just a few song-poems, including
"Richard Nixon" (a tribute) and the drum extravaganza "Beat
of the Traps," Mr. Ardolino was hooked. "As much as the
craziness, I like the fact that it's really what people
felt," he said.

Mr. Ardolino started looking out for song-poems at thrift
stores and yard sales, and he added song-poems to tapes he
shared with friends like Phil Milstein, who convinced him
that song-poems deserved to be reissued. Mr. Milstein found
a willing label, Carnage Press, that has released four
compilations: "Beat of the Traps," "I'm Just the Other
Woman," "Makers of Smooth Music" and "The Human Breakdown
of Absurdity." (Songs from those albums reappear on the
Bar/None anthology.) And in 1996, John Zorn's Tzadik label
released "I Died Today," a collection from the undisputed
star of the song-poem composers, Rodd Keith, alias Rod
Rogers, whose real name was Rodney Eskelin.

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Those albums made their way to disc jockeys, fans of
peculiar Americana and musicians like Yo La Tengo, who have
been known to play the song-poem "How Can a Man Overcome
His Heartbroken Pain" on stage. Irwin Chusid's book "Songs
in the Key of Z: The Curious Universe of Outsider Music" (A
Cappella Books/Chicago Review Press, 2000 ) includes a
chapter on song-poems.

Mr. Ardolino's friend and abettor, Mr. Milstein, now runs
an exhaustive Web site devoted to song-poems,
www.aspma.com.

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RESOUR> February 11 Proclaimed "American Song-Poem Day"

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