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01. SINCLAIR, JOHN  - Testify
02. SINCLAIR, JOHN  - Good Stuff
03. SINCLAIR, JOHN  - Everybody Needs Somebody
04. SINCLAIR, JOHN  - Change My Life
05. SINCLAIR, JOHN  - Ain't Nobody's Business
06. SINCLAIR, JOHN  - My Buddy
07. SINCLAIR, JOHN  - That Old Man
01. SINCLAIR, JOHN  - Brilliant Corners
02. SINCLAIR, JOHN  - Culture Cide
03. SINCLAIR, JOHN  - Red Dress (Ruby My Dear)
04. SINCLAIR, JOHN  - Sitarrtha
05. SINCLAIR, JOHN  - Do It
06. SINCLAIR, JOHN  - War On Drugs
ARTIST
TITLE
Beatnik Youth
FORMAT
2CD

LABEL
CATALOG #
IMB 6032CD IMB 6032CD
GENRE
RELEASE DATE
4/6/2018

Detroit's iconic "White Panther" introduces himself as "a beatnik, dope fiend, poet provocateur, race traitor and renegade. Living from hand to mouth and euro to euro, sleeping on the couches and extra beds of my friends. A man without a country and a post office box in New Orleans for a permanent address." Reciting his beat poetry in a sub-baritone growl, John Sinclair waxes lyrical about John Lennon, Thelonious Monk, Kerouac, Ginsberg, and Burroughs, and issues a libertarian's charter on "Ain't Nobody's Business". 13 songs produced by Youth, ranging from raucous rock 'n' roll to psychedelic jazz and abstract soundscapes. Throughout, Sinclair's voice functions as an anchor, taking on an American social landscape bursting with civil unrest and self-reinvention as Youth's modernist production swirls around him. Immortalized by John Lennon's 1972 song that bears his name, Sinclair is an iconic figure of '60s counterculture, famous for, among other things, having co-founded the White Panther Party and for managing Detroit's legendary leftist proto-punk outfit MC5.