Vespers
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Composed for and broadcast on the A Mutual Respect February Music Month Challenge
It was years ago that I first heard the song Vespers, an original by grad school comrade-in-arts Nick Courage, and it stuck with me. I think he was having one of his raucous ecofeminist-poetry-jamz parties, and we were all drinking 40z out of champagne flutes and somehow the guitars came out and so did "Vespers" (I think I ended up humming along in off-kilter harmony or banging on a pot or something). It took me till now to get around to covering it, and I'm pleased how it's both new and old, "darker and more hopeful" as Courage himself puts it.
Guitar, vocals: Mark Fullmer
Poetry: Plath, "Daddy". Hopkins, "The Windhover". Ginsberg, "Howl". Courage, "PhDville burnt down"
Story: Hemingway: "Indian Camp"
Cover(!) art: a shot of my February home, in Taos NM
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