STAGGERLEE STONEBREAKER IS DANA CLANCY, COCHISE JONES, JUKE NAWLINS, JOHNNY FLAMINGO, AND THE ESTATE OF LANCE BOYLE...CONTACT JIMI VEGAS AT THE REQUIEM BALLROOM, STAGVILLE USA
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"YOU KNOW, IF IT WEREN'T FOR PREJUDICE AND BIAS, I WOULD BE COMPLETELY INCAPABLE OF THOUGHT!"....the estate of lance boyle
Influences
MOM, GREAT AUNT MARTHA, MUDDY WATERS, RICK NELSON, HENDRIX, BRIAN WILSON, BURT BACHARACH, DAVID BYRNE, JACK KEROUAC, VLADIMIR NABAKOV
REVIEWS OF “A MADNESS AGO” ARE STARTING TO ROLL IN!---
“I laughed, I cried, I projectile vomited my gall bladder.”
the estate of lance boyle, stagville gazette
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“Thirty pages into ‘A Madness Ago’ I decided time has arrived for me to aggressively pursue a degree in illiteracy. This book is not just another celebration of bullshit from Stonebreaker---it is “Mein Kampf for the Compleat Idiot.” Apart from biographies of merciless megalomaniacs temporarily out of fashion, one normally tends toward development of sympathy for a central character. What I managed to muster for Dance McBride barely overtakes the flu of loving concern I developed for the cro-magnon schoolboy who stomped on my glasses while I still had them on in 1959. McBride uses every transparent trick in his pathetic and cynical plot to overthrow decency: destruction of identity, religious justification, disarming humor, reckless dancing---the list goes on. By page 100 I had developed the random twitch of one who has involuntarily “whipped it out” on a trolley, awakened flailing in his bed relieved it was only a dream, and discovered it was not a dream and his bed is actually a single room at the Blue Cross Hotel with checkout in 10 days. That book burned longer than Chicago. ---------------------------
Smiley Furbish, Rolling Rock Magazine
MESOPOTAMIAN BLUES
"Certainly the soul of Staggerlee is the blues. You can hear the Mississippi running through songs such as Second Coming, yet there is something totally modern in the sound too. Maybe it's the minimalist instrumentation, or the voice which has a sort of 'everyman' quality, that makes it seem so approachable. While it might be those elements for some listeners, the over riding element is the lyrics, which are rawboned, emotionally ladened, and tantalizing. This guy is one of the best poets catching glimpses of our world I have heard in quite some time. At times they have the impact of a car wreck, but you still can't turn away. You quickly become emotionally-vested in this effort."
-- CALVIN DANIELS
--from the review which first appeared in Yorkton This Week - Yorkton, SK. Canada.
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im diggin it...you should come to syracuse sometime im sure i could find a nice venue big enough. The times they are a changin...more power to you sir!!
Hey, thanks for the add :) Hope you like the blog and will
keep reading! So nice to share my writing with people and hear what they think
:) Hope this finds you well. xxxx
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MESOPOTAMIAN BLUES
"Certainly the soul of Staggerlee is the blues. You can hear the Mississippi running through songs such as Second Coming, yet there is something totally modern in the sound too. Maybe it's the minimalist instrumentation, or the voice which has a sort of 'everyman' quality, that makes it seem so approachable. While it might be those elements for some listeners, the over riding element is the lyrics, which are rawboned, emotionally ladened, and tantalizing. This guy is one of the best poets catching glimpses of our world I have heard in quite some time. At times they have the impact of a car wreck, but you still can't turn away. You quickly become emotionally-vested in this effort."
-- CALVIN DANIELS
--from the review which first appeared in Yorkton This Week - Yorkton, SK. Canada.
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