Allen G Material Wealth (CD)

(Heyday Again) 15 tracks (77:59), digisleeve - Allen's voice in poems and songs

The compact disc soundtrack to the book Material Wealth: Mining the Personal Archive of Allen Ginsberg published by Powerhouse Books (distributed by Simon & Schuster)

In 1994, Rhino Records released a 4-CD box set of Holy Soul Jelly Roll: Songs & Poems 1949-1993, compiled by the late Hal Willner, containing an unprecedented and definitive collection of Allen's poetry and song. Long out of print, this single CD draws from and adds to Ginsberg's incredible body of work. This new Material Wealth CD (an audio soundtrack to the book of the same name) will compactly explain to people who Allen Ginsberg was!

A lifetime of Allen Ginsberg's love, spirituality, passion, politics, culture and art in poems and songs.

These classic but rare and in some cases previously unpublished poems and songs are a bible of bop prose from one of the saints of the Beat Generation. With musical accompaniment by Bob Dylan, Paul McCartney, Elvin Jones, Lenny Kaye, Philip Glass, David Mansfield, David Amram, Arthur Russell and others.

Compiled and annotated by Pat Thomas - the reissue producer of the 2016 3-CD The Last Word On First Blues, collecting Allen's rock, blues and folk singing/songwriting from 1971 to 1984, and the reissue producer of the 2017 The Complete Songs Of Innocence And Experience by William Blake, tuned by Allen Ginsberg - his 1970 album of William Blake poems set to music and sung by Allen, with additional recordings from the period, including Buddhist mantras. In a 4-panel wallet with a 16-page booklet.