On WAITING FOR THE LAST BUS: Vocals, acoustic guitar, resonator: Paul Allen
Drums: Josh Kaler
Piano and Accordion: Mike Flynn
Resonator (track 2): Jay Miley
Lead Guitar: (track 8) Josh Kaler●(tracks 5, 11) Al Pugliese●(track 3)Jay Miley
Bass: Jay Miley●(tracks 5, 11) Bruce Roberts
Harmonica: Bob Tobin
Influences
In Songwriting: Bob Dylan, Tom Paxton, Guy Clark, Joan Baez, Gillian Welch, Lightin' Hopkins, John Lee Hooker, Jimmy Reed, Sonny Terry, Brownie McGee, Guy Clark, Tom Waites, Leonard Cohen, Randy Newman, Creedance Clearwater Revival, Judy Hensky, The Waifs, Tom T. Hall.
In Poetry: W. B. Yeats, Walt Whitman, Carl Sandburg, Randall Jarrell, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Stanley Kunitz, William Stafford, Sydney Lea, Leon Stokesbury, Frank O'Conner, Michael Heffernan, Elizabeth Bishop, Marrianne Moor, John Frederick Nims, John Berryman--with a wash of St. Augustine, Theresa of Avila, St. John of the Cross, Thomas a Kempis, Annie Dillard, C. S. Lewis, and Thomas Merton.
Sounds Like
crap, sometimes. Folks most often mention Terry Allen and Tom T. Hall
In Montgomery in the 60s he hopped a freight train to—well, to the other end of the yard where his boxcar was unhooked and left to sit. He and Ronnie drank bourbon in the rain while sitting at Hank Williams’ grave singing those songs and quoting Robert Burns. He missed too many classes in college because they were interfering with learning a new Tom Paxton, Hank Williams, or Bob Dylan song. He’d have married Joan Baez. (Truth be known, he’d have married Bob Dylan too; it was a confusing time.) He has received the South Carolina Arts Commission’s Individual Artist Fellowship in Poetry twice, the Mary Roberts Rinehart Award (George Mason University), the Vassar Miller Poetry Prize from the University of North Texas Press, the South Carolina Academy of Authors Fellowship, the John Williams Andrews Narrative Poetry Prize from Poet Lore, the Distinguished Research Award from The College of Charleston (2007), and a Pushcart (XXXII, 2008)He has given readings and performed in a number of venues, from open mics to university writers’ series, including, recently, Callanwolde Arts Center in Atlanta, Iota Club and Café in Washington, DC, and The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, DC.
If you want to support me, buy or download the instrumental solo drumming cd “Drums Music” from Peter Hasler’s Kitchen over cdbaby.com or amazon.com. Songs to download are available on itunes.com.
CD exchange is also welcome. I will get back to your message soon!
Hey Paul! Just sending out a reminder... CROWFIELD @ THE POUR HOUSE - SATURDAY APRIL 18 ... We've worked really hard to get the word out and would love for you to be there! I'm taking your poetry book on the road with me. I get carsick when I read for a long time but your poems are short enough I think I'll avoid the nausea. Thanks!
