I perform my fresh translation of the first part of one of Arthur Rimbaud's earliest poems, one which marks the cold and dim arrival of a new year. For more about this and other combinations of various words with original music visit frankhudson.org
This rude Edwardian ditty critiques holiday charity. For more about this, more polite and impolite songs, and other combinations of various words and original music visit frankhudson.org
A poetry performance written for this solstice and in memoriam to two poets/friends whose voices I miss. For more about this and other combinations of various words with original music, visit frankhudson.org
This short and gothic Emily Dickinson poem is full of surprising details. For more about that and other combinations of various words and original music visit frankhudson.org
Instead of our usual Poetry's Greatest Hits selection, a short poem of mine performed with chiming electric guitars, drums and cello. For more about this and other combinations of various words and original music, visit frankhudson.org
We turn American poet Robert Frost's early short poem inside out to make it a rocking Blues number. For more about this and other combinations of various words and original music visit frankhudson.org
Here's Robert Frost's tale in harvest time performed, a piece appropriate for American Thanksgiving. For more about this and other combinations of various words and original music visit frankhudson.org
I adapted this classical Chinese poem about grief and mourning into an English language song. For more about this and other combinations of various words and original music visit frankhudson.org
In Kurt Vonnegut's novel Cats Cradle this moving summation of life is described as "The Last Rites of the Bokononist Faith." The LYL Band performs it to complete our Vonnegut series honoring him on the 99th anniversary of his birth. For more about this, other pieces in our Vonnegut series, and other combinations of various words and original music, visit frankhudson.org
Another short song using words from Kurt Vonnegut's novel Cat's Cradle set to music and performed by The LYL Band. For more about this and other combinations of various words with original music visit frankhudson.org
A dark poem from Kurt Vonnegut's novel Mother Night performed as part of our series noting the 99th anniversary of the author's birth. For more about this and other combinations of various words with original music, visit frankhudson.org
In Cat's Cradle Kurt Vonnegut created a fictional religion whose psalms were calypso songs. This one's been often sung by fans of the book, but however imperfect, I prefer this live LYL Band version that actually sings it as a calypso. For more about this and other combinations of various words with original music visit frankhudson.org
Kurt Vonnegut wrote this short baptismal litany for a character in God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater. As we start a Vonnegut series on the 99th anniversary of his birth, this short LYL Band tribute performance from the week of his death in 2007 is good place to start. For more about this and other combinations of various words with original music, visit frankhudson.org
English poet Thomas Hardy's complicated ghost and grief poem performed with a funky band. For more about this and other combinations of various word and original music, visit frankhudson.org
Finishing our Halloween series, Robert Frost's poem makes a wry comment suitable for All Saints and All Souls Days this November. For more about this and other combinations of various words and original music, visit frankhudson.org
In this parody, American poet Louis Untermeyer takes a nursery rhyme and uses it to parody De La Mare's famous horror poem
"The Listeners." For more about this and other combinations of various words and original music visit frankhudson.org
Dave Moore's chilling ballad about something more frightening than witches performed. Well worth your 8 minutes to hear this!
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Continuing our Halloween series: early 20th century Irish poet Seosamh MacCathmhaoil's revision of a trad folk song added, well, a werefox. For more about this and other combinations of various words with original music visit frankhudson.org
Starting our Halloween Series with this spooky fairy song from Joseph Campbell (Seosamh MacCathmhaoil). For more about this and other combinations of various words with original music go to frankhudson.org
An odd short Robert Frost poem in which love and connection and then freedom and free thought are presented in opposition and contrast. I perform it in weird-folk Parlando Project style. For more about this and other combinations of various words and original music visit frankhudson.org
A song I made out of British poet Edward Thomas' tale of an overnight stop during a bicycle tour ride. For more about this and other combinations of various words with original music visit frankhudson.org
Another elegy, this time from modern American poet Kevin FitzPatrick. Kevin himself recently died, and we here at the Parlando Project want to note his work. For more about this and other combinations of various words with original music, visit frankhudson.org
Emily Dickinson wrote this ecstatic poem about her experience of another poet (thought to be Elizabeth Barrett Browning.) For more about this and other combinations of various words with original music, visit frankhudson.org
An angular rock performance of a Kevin FitzPatrick poem about trying to return a pair of workboots. For more about this and other combinations of various words and original music visit frankhudson.org
Irish poet W. B. Yeats once took exception to too-easy comforting, and I have recast his poem with this performance dedicated to poet Ethna McKiernan. For more about this and other combinations of various words combined with original music visit frankhudson.org