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Fattening Frogs for Snakes (Delta Sound Suite), by John Sinclair

Hard cover: $25.00 Paperback: $15.00

This is John Sinclair's masterful telling of the Mississippi Delta blues tradition, with introduction by Amiri Baraka, who writes: "The book is a marvel, in that it is not only a poem, but research, bibliography, discography, history, of the most copious yet careful and earnest kind. Muddy Waters, Willie Dixon, Robert Lockwood, Booker White, Jimmy Rogers, Roosevelt Sykes, Little Brother Montgomery, Sunnyland Slim, Sonny Boy Williamson, Howlin' Wolf, Robert Johnson, Charley Patton and many peeps you don't even know, all be in here. Where to find their music. what their lives were like. And what is, after all, the Blues, when it move you inside forever...

Guitar Army, featuring articles by John Sinclair et. al.

Hard cover: $50.00 Paperback: $35.00

"GUITAR ARMY" contains the saga of the former "rock and roll guerillas," the MC5, who were managed by Sinclair until his imprisonment in July 1969; a series of documents and underground newspaper columns from the era of the White Panther Party and its successor, the Rainbow People's Party...

Realizations of Peyote Mind and After, by John Sinclair

Paperback: $10.00

Sinclair writes: "Under peyote I realized the most profound truths of my life and I know that these realizations will stay with me and influence the course of my life..."

This Is Our Music, by John Sinclair

Paperback: $15.00

This is Sinclair's first Artists Workshop Press publication -- vintage 1965. In it, he passes the celebrated joint. A real collector's item!

Peyotemind, featuring the spoken words of John Sinclair

CD: $12.00

Cary Loren says, "There is a wonderful freshness and innocence to the material, which was conceived on the front lines of psychedelic culture...Sinclair was able to both face his dark side and observe this cosmic totality as an all-consuming love..."

Music Is Revolution, spoken word recordings

CD: $15.00

This is a 72-minute spoken word CD with voices from 1967-1971: Frank Bach, Dan Carlyle, Jesse Crawford, Bernadine Dohrn, David Fenton, Russ Gibb, Gary Grimshaw, Joseph Jarman, Anne Levasseur, Genie & Pun Plamundon, John, David & Leni Sinclair, Bobby Seale, The UP, and others...
 ...And remember, web-surfing connoisseur, when you buy two John Sinclair items, you don't get one free, you GET free!

Ovals, by George Tysh

Paperback: $10.00

Tysh's lyrical/yet economical lines are spokesmen for their own private universe of enjoyment: "there's a little / flap over / lips of longing / ends meet / invited by envelope / water flows / the pleasure of / puffing up to / wearing feathers / evasive / you of night..."

Dream Sites: A Visual Essay, by George Tysh

Paperback: $12.00

Gregory Wittkopp, Director of Cranbrook Art Museum writes:" Dream Sites represents an important departure for Cranbrook Art Museum. As an exhibition, it is the first in a series of "visual essays" that go beyond the often monolithic curatorial point of view of "the museum" by presenting alternative interpretations of our collection..."
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