I’ve been waiting for this book for a long time! As a teenager in Winnipeg in the ’70s, Neil was a god to us. We drove the 500 miles to Minneapolis during grade 12 at Kelvin to see him for the first time — and to our great dumb-luck fortune, it was the Rust […]
Don’t be Denied — “Young Neil” book review
October 5th, 2014 · 22 Comments · Music
Tags: Kelvin·Neil Young·perseverance·Toronto·Winnipeg
A Shakespearean Cassady
June 17th, 2012 · 13 Comments · Kerouac and The Beats, Poetry, Real-life Adventure Tales
A Shakespearean Cassady . A month of rain in 12 hours can’t dampen the Spirit of a lifetime of experience or the experience of a lifetime. Two compatible souls a generation apart, Somehow related, somehow unjaded, somehow not faded, Still giggling unburdened, still freely unherded, Two jazz cats still flowing, still riffing, still reading […]
Tags: Carolyn Cassady·Hassett poetry·John Cassady·Kerouac and Shakespeare·living Beats·modern Beat poetry·Neal Cassady·perseverance·poems about life