Fw: Playing With Tom Robbins, Who Passed Away Yesterday

Wed Feb 12 05:46:30 UTC 2025

I didn’t particularly care for “Roadside” or “Cowgirls” but starting with
_Still Life with Woodpecker_ imho he got better & better. Requiescat in
pace.

Pretty good run: 92

Greg Mitchell’s Substack - short & sweet with a nice musical link

https://gregmitchell.substack.com/p/playing-with-tom-robbins-who-passed

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> > First, there was a major benefit concert/tribute for Joan Baez in San
> > Francisco on Saturday, featuring among others Bonnie Raitt, Lucinda
> > Williams, Jackson Browne and on and on. Here is a piece about it.
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> > The only music from it I can find is a distant audience video that
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> > audio pretty well of her singing “Diamonds and Rust.”
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> > Next, just one of several horrific Trump statements during an impromptu
> > presser on Air Force One on the way to the Super Bowl, which cost
> taxpayers
> > $4 to $10 million (Elon, please probe this unnecessary spending).
> >
> > *Reporter*: You are going to meet with first responders today, but you
> > pardoned hundreds of people who assaulted first responders [on January
> 6].
> >
> > *Trump*: No, I pardoned people who were assaulted themselves… by our
> > government. I didn’t assault. They didn’t assault. They were assaulted.
> > What I did was a great thing for humanity.
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> > *Did Tom Robbins Ever Get the Blues?*
> >
> > Next, the once very popular playful novelist, mainly with younger people
> > of the ‘70s and ‘80s, Tom Robbins passed away yesterday at the age of 92.
> > Of course, this made me recall my efforts at* Crawdaddy* in 1976 to
> > interview him, after my rather celebrated profiles of Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
> > and Joseph Heller. Robbins was a cult star for his fun if dopey (in both
> > senses of the word) novels “Another Roadside Attraction” and “Even
> Cowgirls
> > Get the Blues.” He had been doing the Pynchon thing for awhile,
> cultivating
> > an air of mystery, no one knew where he lived, and he had never done a
> > major interview.
> >
> > Somehow I managed to contact him through his agent or editor and got back
> > a friendly letter offering to send me a “self-interview” which I could
> > print if I did not edit it at all and did not reveal where he lived. He
> > sent it to his agent or editor first, and they scotched the idea. But
> with
> > “Even Cowgirls” heading for a new paperback edition and a movie directed
> by
> > Robert Altman in the works, they convinced him to do at least one lengthy
> > in-person interview.
> >
> > So in April 1977, I flew to San Francisco to interview Robbins, mainly in
> > Japantown. Robbins had warned in a second letter to me, “My publishers
> > haven't gotten used to my craziness yet, and I think they may be a little
> > nervous about what I might say.” Robbins again made me promise to keep
> > hidden exactly where he lived—somewhere in the Pacific Northwest—claiming
> > fans were starting to camp out on his front lawn. Kurt Vonnegut had told
> me
> > he went through the same thing when he lived in Barnstable on Cape Cod.
> >
> > Photo of Tom back then:
> >
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> >
> > As I expected, Tom acted predictably offbeat as we walked around
> > Chinatown, with his young girlfriend Margie, ducking in and out of Asian
> > toy shops he loved. He was into the new transformers toys way ahead of
> the
> > rest of us. His mantra seemed to be “play” which he said he took
> > “seriously.” At a vegetable stand he picked up a stalk of asparagus and
> > placed it on top of his head, as if to launch it into space via his own
> > thought-beams. “It's never too late to have a happy childhood,” he said.
> > His next book, he revealed, would be titled, “Woodpecker Rising*”* (it
> > was later changed to “Still-Life With Woodpecker”).
> >
> > With a thick head of hair and ‘stache, Tom was youthful in both
> appearance
> > and manner. Perhaps all those magic mushrooms he’d ingested back in the
> day
> > had something to do with that. From some of his colleagues at a newspaper
> > back in Virginia where he got his start, however, I’d discovered that
> he’d
> > long lied about his age, and then to me during our interview (cutting
> about
> > five years off the current forty-five). Robbins was uptight where
> Vonnegut
> > had been relaxed about his status as a rapidly aging hero of younger
> > readers.
> >
> > Still, he seemed like a good guy, and he invited me to a party that night
> > for him, naturally on a local houseboat, a former bait and tackle
> > shop--another seaside attraction.
> >
> > It was quite a bash, featuring an all-cowgirl bluegrass band (unlike
> > Robbins’ famous heroine Sissy Hankshaw they were not all-thumbs). I met
> > Tom’s friend, a Seattle artist named Lead Pencil, and one of his many
> > female admirers, actress Joanna Cassidy. It reminded me of a party for
> > Leonard Cohen in New York when he was surrounded by five or six lovely
> > women everywhere he walked. Robbins said that 80% of his fan mail came
> from
> > women, even though a lot of “dumb” feminists were “confusing sexuality
> with
> > sexism.” Apparently some of them thought the cowgirls in his novel should
> > have come out as lesbians, or so he claimed.
> >
> > At some point I found myself sitting next to young songwriter Rodney
> > Crowell, who had just penned a tune for Emmylou Harris, based on
> “Cowgirls,
> > *”* at the bar. Crowell, who was still touring as part of Emmylou’s
> > backup band, was chatting with someone behind me but I could hear every
> > word. Rodney said something like, “Emmylou is still so damn upset about
> > that damn *Crawdaddy* article on Gram Parsons, after she read it on the
> > tour bus. I told her, if I ever find the guy who wrote it, I’d beat the
> > shit out of him.” So I casually got up and found another seat, out on the
> > deck. I had co-authored that article.
> >
> > If Rodney had managed to ID me, maybe I’d just blame it all on my
> > co-author.
> >
> > Here is that song, with Emmylou and Rodney (and yes that’s young Rosanne
> > Cash).
> >
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