Wednesday, November 18, 2009

Robert Peters

Add Date: November 24

Artist: Robert Peters

Album: Going Down The River In A Hayloft Coffin: The Evocative Years of Robert Peters

Label: Hen House Studios

Genre: Spoken word

Comments: Now this one's different: a collection of 49 poems, set to various backing music, that features 84-year-old Wisconsin poet Robert Peters reading his own poems -- offering "re-VISIONS," as he describes in his prologue -- which are genuine and wonderful, about life in Wisconsin and simple things. The music occasionally enhances but generally provides the backdrop for Peters' goofy delivery, which is part Daniel Johnston and part Brad Neely. Read along as you play 4, 5, 10, or 21.

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