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Reading John Sinclair + Excerpts from 'It Must Be Love' (Word Passed Down .​.​.​)​'

by John Sinclair poet & Don Paul reader; "It Must Be Love" by Don Paul, Kidd Jordan, Morikeba Kouyaté

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'Good-bye, Hound Dog Taylor' 00:42
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'Thank You, Pretty Baby (for Alison Miner)' 01:38
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' "Just One Big Heart", said Howlin' Wolf' 03:45
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'Four Tiny Sutras' 00:47
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Digging into Olson and Creeley via the U. of Michigan Library at Flint, age 16, 1957 01:48
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'Brilliant Corners' 05:40
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'Fattening Frogs for Snakes' 04:40
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"Tell us about the process, John" "Sometimes it's a gift from God that comes down perfect. Sometimes you have to work at it." 00:36
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'Love' (from and for John Coltrane 03:07
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'It Must Be Love (Word Passed Down ...)', 'The voices beside your pillow ...' 01:50
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'It Must Be Love ... Devotees shower us with blessings' 01:46
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'It Must Be Love ...' John brought, Chuck brought 01:33
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'It Must Be Love ... What is that sound abideth night? ...' 04:13
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Text of the seven poems here and many images are at www.ur1light.com/reading-john-sinclairur1light.com

First, thought, you may want to head on over to the phenomenal riches laid out for listeners and readers at johnsinclair.bandcamp.com. If you can believe your eyes and ears....

All proceeds benefit the John Sinclair Foundation.You can visit John's huge and invaluable cache of albums and books at
radiofreeamsterdam.org/john-sinclair-2020-products/.


On December 22, 2020 John and I recorded a Zoom session that in the next month made up the biggest part of two of 'The John Sinclair' hours on Radio Free Amsterdam. We played tracks from my 2020 album/compilation, The Time We Have (Meld #1) and then I asked to read poems of John's.

Thanks to Offbeat, the magazine of New Orleans' musicn and culture, for its piece on John's and my shows. That's here--https://www.offbeat.com/news/the-john-sinclair-radio-show-with-new-orleans-poet-don-paul/

I admire and value his work inexpressibly. He's done so much, over 60+ years, as poet, promoter, producer, and champion of equal rights and fair shares. In February and May I got round to editing tracks of the readings. In June I at last put a selection into sequence.

While listening, a recording that I made in 2014 with Kidd Jordan and Morikeba Kouyaté for our album Women Center Earth, Sea and Sky kept coming to mind. Its title is 'It Must Be Love (Word Passed Down through Forbidden Radio'. It's of a poem I wrote about John and another dear and inspiring friend, Chuck Kinder, novelist, educator
encourager, and among the Last Mountain Dancers, around time of their birthdays, October 2012.

"It Must Be Love ..." was the last track that the three of us recorded
at Rick G. Nelson's Marigny Studio that July 24, 2014. I felt then that everyone delivered from deep feeling on it. There are four excerpts here from the 11:28 track. They draw especially from John and Chuck,

Please check out John's vast assemblage of work at

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released June 17, 2021

Rick G. Nelson, engineer for "It Must Be Love ..."

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