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Portland​/​Swirling Gingerbread River

by Hoosier Pete

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Postlude 01:30
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Dwell (live) 02:51
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Songs 1-13 released 12/19/2007 as *Portland*. Songs 14-21 recorded 9/12/2008 at Lisa's Oak Street Lounge (Louisville,KY) and released later that year as *Swirling Gingerbread River*. "Amazing Grace" is apparently out somewhere, because a few people have heard it, but damned if I remember where.

From the liner notes of *Swirling Gingerbread River":
"In St. Louis things didn't seem to be so good, and he got into a row with a hooker he picked up on Market Street who tried to roll him, so as a guy told him there were plenty jobs to be had in Louisville he began to beat his way east. By the time he got to New Albany it was hot as the hinges of hell; he'd had poor luck on hitches and his feet were swollen and blistered. He stood a long time looking into the swift brown current of the Ohio, too tired to go any further. He hated the idea of tramping around looking for a job. The river was the color of gingerbread; he started to think of the gingercookies Lizzie Green used to make in his mother's kitchen and he thought he was a damn fool to be bumming around like this. He'd go home and plant himself among the weeds, that's what he'd do."-- John Dos Passos, The 42nd Parallel

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released April 8, 2020

All songs written (more or less) and played by Hoosier Pete, except "Dance of the Inhabitants of the Palace of King Philip XIV of Spain" (Fahey) and "Amazing Grace" (traditional). Recorded by Dan Willems, except "Prelude/Portland" recorded by Elijah Pritchett.

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Hoosier Pete Louisville, Kentucky

"Hoosier Pete" is the persona that Wm. Zink has adopted for his American primitive/folk/solo guitar outings.

The obvious touchpoint here is John Fahey, as well as the influences shared with Fahey, starting with Son House, Charlie Patton, Bukka White, and beyond. Also: piano by Eric Satie, John Cage, Charles Ives. The dynamics of Morton Feldman, Giacinto Scelsi, Sofia Gubaidulina.

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