Liquor's Got Your Lust (The Dave Stone Trio with Seth Timbs)
Crossing America, VIII (Leo Connellan)
You Stem. You Bum. (Nate Shaw)
Crossing America, IX (Leo Connellan)
Tokyo (Three Fried Men)
Crossing America, X (Leo Connellan)
Rain and the Sea (Geoff Seitz and Dave Landreth)
Crossing America, XI (Leo Connellan)
Horror is Easy (Geoff Seitz and Dave Landreth)
Crossing America, XII (Leo Connellan)
Lost in Ascent (the bog at Horseshoe Lake and a jet plane)
Crossing America, XIII (Leo Connellan)
Cheyenne (Fred Friction with Three Fried Men)
Crossing America, XIV (Leo Connellan)
Loneliness and Guitar Strums (John MacEnulty and Steve Allain)
Crossing America, XV (Leo Connellan)
Gas Pedal Foot (One Good Cool One)
Crossing America, XVI (Leo Connellan)
Betrayed in a Pail (One Good Cool One)
Crossing America, XVII (Leo Connellan)
What We White Men Will Pay for in Hell (Eric Markowitz and Dave Stone)
Crossing America, XVIII (Leo Connellan)
Wet Dust of His Bones (Dave Stone and William Teague)
Crossing America, XIX (Leo Connellan)
Whistled on a Halo (Nate Shaw and Heidi Dean)
Crossing America, XX (Leo Connellan)
The Apple Country (Rosco Gordon & The Rotten Dogs)
Crossing America, XXI (Leo Connellan)
Ridding the Community of Vagrancy (Three Fried Men)
Crossing America, XXII (Leo Connellan)
Just One More Mountain (Brian Henneman with Three Fried Men)
Crossing America, XXIII (Leo Connellan)
Truce with Silence (Three Fried Men)
Crossing America, XXIV (Leo Connellan)
Just Around the Corner from Night (Chuck Hatcher)
Crossing America, XXV (Leo Connellan)
The Town of Her Dollhouse (Jeffrey Hoard and Victoria Gough)
Crossing America, XXVI and XXVII (Leo Connellan)
Proudly on Everybody's Lips/Washington Post (The Gateway Brass Quintet)
Crossing America, XXVIII (Leo Connellan)
Alice in Eleven Dresses (Dave Stone)
Crossing America, XXIX (Leo Connellan)
In the 1950s Leo Connellan hitchhiked across America, a bum and a drunk, scribbling notes about his travels on scraps of paper. Eventually he sobered up and rewrote these scraps as a hitchhiking epic, Crossing America, fir... more »st published in 1976, which ends with a brutal and lyrical account of a bum's rape of a bag lady. Near the end of his life (he died in 2002) Leo met a group of young musicians from the arts collective Hoobellatoo, who recorded Leo reading the entire poem. They then traveled the country with a barebones mobile studio packed into a car, recording music to accompany the poem. This record presents Leo's readings (in his Skid Row Elmer Fudd twang), with each pause between the poem's 29 sections illustrated with a musical interlude, ranging in feel from old-time fiddle to post-bop jazz to swaggering rock to tone poem. Consider it spoken word, punctuated by musical miniatures that add up to an experimental folk symphony.« less
In the 1950s Leo Connellan hitchhiked across America, a bum and a drunk, scribbling notes about his travels on scraps of paper. Eventually he sobered up and rewrote these scraps as a hitchhiking epic, Crossing America, first published in 1976, which ends with a brutal and lyrical account of a bum's rape of a bag lady. Near the end of his life (he died in 2002) Leo met a group of young musicians from the arts collective Hoobellatoo, who recorded Leo reading the entire poem. They then traveled the country with a barebones mobile studio packed into a car, recording music to accompany the poem. This record presents Leo's readings (in his Skid Row Elmer Fudd twang), with each pause between the poem's 29 sections illustrated with a musical interlude, ranging in feel from old-time fiddle to post-bop jazz to swaggering rock to tone poem. Consider it spoken word, punctuated by musical miniatures that add up to an experimental folk symphony.