Reprinted from the liner notes to the song-poem compilation CD, The American Song-Poem Christmas: Daddy, Is Santa Really Six Foot Four?

Anyone remotely famous, whether or not singing was previously on their resume, has made a Christmas album — from Bing Crosby to RuPaul. (She called hers Ho Ho Ho.) In the giving tradition of the […]

Reprinted from the liner notes to the song-poem compilation CD, I’m Just The Other Woman (Carnage Press).

I hereby state my case, of which I am certain: “song-poem” music is one of the richest motherlodes of pure unfiltered glorious wrongness to be found in any field of human endeavor. I believe in that statement so firmly […]

Reprinted from the liner notes to the Rodd Keith compilation CD, I Died Today (Tzadik)

This music is the result of those “send us your lyrics” come-ons that you’ve probably seen in magazines. Lately there’s been a growing interest in this type of music, now being recognized as a genre wholly unto itself. People from all […]

Reprinted from the liner notes to the song-poem compilation CD, The American Song-Poem Anthology: Do You Know The Difference Between Big Wood And Brush.

ou could call The American Song-Poem Anthology a best-of collection, though some among you might ask, “the best of — what???” These tracks, many of which date back to the late ’60s, […]

Reprinted from the liner notes to the song-poem compilation album, The Beat Of The Traps (Carnage Press).

Wild music; crazy lyrics. Beautiful music; perfect lyrics. You get all this and more with these kinds of records. Strange sounding cheap early electronic keyboards like the Mellotron; out of control drum machines. Normal-sounding budget session musicians; drunk […]