reading/listening

[Ted Samsel]

Finishing:
PALINURO OF MEXICO
AT-SWIM-TWO-BIRDS

Finished:
THE DEATH AND LIFE OF MIGUEL DE CERVANTES by Stephen Marlowe
MY FATHER'S WAR by Peter Richmond
ECHOES OF COMBAT ( about the impact of VietNam on American culture)
BACK TO THE SAME CITY by Paco Ignacio Taibo II (a Mexico City PI)

Listening :
HILLBILLY BOOGIE (western swing  from the late 40's to the mid 50s)
MADDOX BRTHERS & Rose "                        "
David Byrne's compilation of Afro-Portuguese pop from the late 60s
 early 70s
MINGUS AH UM.
TRUE LIFE BLUES: The music of Bill Monroe....

Ted Samsel....tejas at infi.net
   "do the boogie woogie in the South American way"
                           Rhumba Boogie- Hank Snow (1955)