Kerouac: Kicks Joy Darkness

Various Artists

Rykodisc 10329

This album of readings (some with musical settings) from published and unpublished pieces by Jack Kerouac includes a reading by Robert Hunter and one by Eric Andersen.

Tracks

The tracks and performers on this collections are;

• Kerouac - Morphine
• Bowery Blues - Lydia Lunch
• My Gang - Michael Stipe
• Dream: "Us Kids Swim off a Gray Pier - Steven Tyler
• Letter to William S. Burroughs & Ode To Jack - Hunter S. Thompson
• Skid Row Wine - Maggie Estep and the Spitters
• America's New Trinity of Love: Dean, Brando, Presley - Richard Lewis
• Dream: "On a Sunny Afternoon..." - Lawrence Ferlinghetti and Helium
• MacDougal Street Blues - Jack Kerouac and Joe Strummer
• The Brooklyn Bridge Blues - Allen Ginsberg
• Hymn - Eddie Vedder, Campbell 2000 and Sadie 7
• Old Western Movies - William Burroughs and tomdandy
• Silly Goofball Poems - Julianna Hatfield
• The Moon - John Cale
• Excerpt from Visions Of Cody: Madroad driving... - Johnny Depp and Come
• Excerpt from Visions Of Cody: Have you ever seen anyone like Cody Pomeray?... - Robert Hunter
• Letter to John Clellon Holmes - Lee Ranaldo and Dana Colley
• Pome on Doctor Sax - Anna Domino
• Mexico Rooftop - Rob Buck and Danny Chauvin
• The Last Hotel - Patti Smith with Thurston Moore and Lenny Kaye
• Running Through-Chinese Poem Song - Warren Zevon and Michael Wolff
• Woman - Jim Caroll with Lee Ranaldo, Lenny Kaye and Anton Sanco
• Mexican Loneliness - Matt Dillon with Joey Altruda, Joe Gonzalez and Pablo Calogero
• Angel Mine - Inger Lorre and Jeff Buckley
• The Brooklyn Bridge Blues (Chorus 10) - Eric Andersen

• Track 1 - Kerouac - by Morphine
• Track 5, part B - Ode To Jack - by Hunter S. Thompson

The excert from The Brooklyn Bridge Blues read by Eric Andersen was recorded live on the Brooklyn Bridge.

Credits

• Producer - Jim Sampas
• Associate Producer - Lee Ranaldo
• Engineer - Mark Sandman, Tom Lewis, Kevin Shirley, Roy Mayorga, Ingo Krauss, Daniel Messerli, David Cook, Ann Pope, Dan McLaughlin, Owen Burkett, Joe Strummer, Jack Kerouac, 13 Anthony, Jerry Gottus, Brian Smith, John Cale, Bruce Witkin, Robert Hunter, Peter Weiss, Anna Domino, Lonnie Bedell, Duncan Aldrich, Warton Tears, Danny Caccavo, Hillary Johnson, Eric Andersen
• Mixing - Mark Sandman, Tom Lewis, Kevin Shirley, Roy Mayorga, Ingo Krauss, Daniel Messerli, Dan McLaughlin, Mary Timony, Jim Sampas, Joe Strummer, Chris Anderson, 13 Anthony, Jerry Gottus, Brian Smith, David Cook, John Cale, Bruce Witkin, Tim O'Heir, Peter Weiss, Dana Colley, Lonnie Bedell, Danny Caccavo, Hillary Johnson
• Assistant engineer - Rory Romano, Sal Mormando
• Mastering - Danny Caccavo
• Special thanks to - John Sampas (literary representative of the estate of Jack and Stella Kerouac) and David Greenberg (Rykodisk)
• Kerouac legal representation - George Tobia Jr., Burns and Levinson
• A&R Voices Series/Product Manager - David Greenberg
• Package Design - Barbara Longo
• Research - Sonya Kolowrat, Barbara Longo
• Illustrations - Ralph Steadman
• Photography - Allen Ginsberg, Estate of Jack and Stella Kerouac

The Kerouac pieces are from the following sources;

• Bowery Blues, My Gang, Skid Row Wine, Hymn, Old Western Movies, Silly Goofball Poems, The Moon, Pome on Doctor Sax, Mexico Rooftop, The Last Hotel, Running Through-Chinese Poem Song, Woman, Mexican Loneliness and Angel Mine - Pomes All Sizes
• Letter to William S. Burroughs and Letter to John Clellon Holmes - selected letters 1940-1956
• MacDougal Street Blues - Book Of Blues
• Excerpt from Visions Of Cody: Madroad driving... and Excerpt from Visions Of Cody: Have you ever seen anyone like Cody Pomeray?... - Visions Of Cody
• Dream: "Us Kids Swim off a Gray Pier, America's New Trinity of Love: Dean, Brando, Presly, Dream: "On a Sunny Afternoon...", The Brooklyn Bridge Blues - unpublished