Kerouac first performed with TV personality, comedian, and musician Steve Allen (1921-2000) in December 1957 at the Village Vanguard in New York Kerouac was struggling during his first set, drunk and barely standing, but was rescued by the last-minute intervention of Allen who joined him to add a relaxed piano accompaniment. This re-release on milky clear vinyl (along with Blues and Haikus on tobacco tan vinyl) is to celebrate Kerouac’s 100th birthday. The album is also included in the CD box set The Jack Kerouac Collection (Rhino, 1990) and has no doubt been bootlegged countless times over the years. In 2012 it was re-issued yet again on CD for the US market (twice by Rockbeat Records), and then it was back to vinyl (“Beatnik smoke” and red gold marbled variants) for 2017’s re-issue by Real Gone Music. It languished in the wilderness until a US re-issue on CD in 1990 (with extra bonus audio from the Steve Allen Plymouth Show, November 1959 “Readings from On the Road and Visions of Cody”, Rhino Records) and finally for Europe in 2008 (Zonophone). It was originally released in 1959 in the US in mono by Dot Records (in a highly limited number) then “re-issued” three times in the same year by Hanover (co-founded by Bob Thiele and Steve Allen so they could release Kerouac on vinyl). Facts and Stats: Poetry for the Beat Generation is the debut spoken word album of American novelist and poet Jack Kerouac (1922-1969).
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