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
Two modern guitarists said some interesting things about the electric guitar in a recent interview, so I decided to perform quotes from each of them yesterday. To read the full interview https://www.premierguitar.com/artists/guitarists/squid-band
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A short meditation on what stands outside of silent poetry performed with acoustic guitar. For more about this and other combinations of various words and original music, visit frankhudson.org
For our second American Labor Day piece, two labor marching songs performed by a rock band, one using words by Lola Ridge, and the other words by Dave Moore. For more about this and other combinations of various words and original music visit frankhudson.org
For American Labor Day I adapted the end of Carl Sandburg's hymn to workers "Smoke and Steel" and turned it into this song. For more about this and other combinations of various words and original music visit frankhudson.org
The LYL Band loudly romp through a Dave Moore song about a resonant note at the core of the world. For more about this and other combinations of various words and original music visit frankhudson.org
Songs and poems often sing about poets who died young. This isn't one of those. For more about this and other combinations of various words and original music visit frankhudson.org
Performance of another sonnet in my sequence telling the story of a daughter caring for her mother with Alzheimer's. For more about this and other combinations of various words with original music visit frankhudson.org
A performance of another sonnet in our series about dealing with a family member with Alzheimer's. For more about his and other combinations of various words with original music go to frankhudson.org
Victorian poetry's secret? Algernon Charles Swinburne was considered pretty hot stuff back then. Let's do our best to reheat the leftovers. For more about this and other combinations of various words and original music visit frankhudson.org
Here's a song whose lyrics I adapted from Rabindranath Tagore. What do you think are the silent steps of the title? For more about this and other combinations of various words and original music visit frankhudson.org
A poem about grief performed with a rock band. For more about this and other combinations of various words with original music, visit frankhudson.org