New York Blues: Rags, Ballads and Harmonium Songs

Here it is! This is the defining document of the beat legend Allen Ginsberg and celebrated lower east side shaman, odd ball filmmaker and songcatcher Harry Smith. New York Blues: The Harry Smith Recordings brings together vintage 1970s tunes by Allen Ginsberg and his trusty harmonium. Such favorites as CIA Dope Calypso, Dope Fiend Blues, Come Back Christmas and 5 other enjoyable ditties are intimately captured by Smith in his Chelsea Hotel haunt. New York Blues is as much a commemoration of a lifelong kinship between the two free spirits as it is a rare chance to get a truly whimsical earful of Ginsberg doing his thing. Digitally remastered from the original Folkways tapes.