Grateful Dead's Mickey Hart, Yo La Tengo, Angelique Kidjo, Ed Sanders, Sonic Youth's bandmates Thurston Moore and Lee Ranaldo, Bill Frisell and Devendra Banhart are among the musicians that pay tribute to beat poet Allen Ginsberg on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of Ginsberg's The Fall of America: Poems of These States (1965 - 1971)
The album includes musical interpretations of poems from Ginsberg's 1971 book, with some tracks featuring the late poet reciting his lyrics accompanied by the new music.
The collection (in digital, CD or vynil format) can be ordered here
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