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A live coffee-house (Eureka Joe) recording of major NYC spoken-word artists like Bob Holman, Hal Sirowitz, Thaddeus Rutkowski, Regie Cabico and others.
Genre: Spoken Word: Poetry
Release Date: 2007
Family Affairs © Copyright-Walter Midi Media Works
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Preview Song Name Time Format Price Select
Foamola 2:28 Not Available
Nadine Mozon 1:27 Not Available
Susan Scutti 2:05 Not Available
Bobby Miller 3:04 Not Available
Mark Larsen 1:04 Not Available
Anne Elliott 3:00 Not Available
Edwin Torres 1:56 Not Available
Regie Cabico 2:15 Not Available
Bobby Miller 1:16 Not Available
Nicole Blackman 6:54 Not Available
Bob Holman 1:11 Not Available
Janice Erlbaum 7:05 Not Available
Steve Fried 3:00 Not Available
Hal Sirowitz 4:03 Not Available
Gloria 7:45 Not Available
Joan Cusack Handler 4:48 Not Available
Evert Eden 9:17 Not Available
Thaddeus Rutkowski 3:26 Not Available
Sparrow 1:54 Not Available
Todd Colby 1:41 Not Available
Foamola 2:14 Not Available
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Album Notes

In 1992-93 I was going through a nasty custody battle for my two young sons, then aged 5 and 3. A friend suggested I take Bob Holman’s Exploding Poetry workshop at the New School as a constructive outlet for my stress. Bob had created the poetry slam with Miguel Algarin at the Nuyorican Poets Cafe and would soon come out with the CD and then book “ALOUD Voices from the Nuyorican Poets Cafe.” During the New School workshop, he would occasionally write rather wacky homework assignments on the blackboard, which we could do or not. One of his assignments was: get a reading or start a series A new coffee shop had opened on my block; Eureka Joe. It was an espresso joint with sofas and easy-chairs, very much like some North Beach beatnik-fantasy hangout magically transported from 1950-something. The Eureka Joe owners, David and Jackie, were eager to have a weekly poetry series. And so began tongue’n’groove. Two years later, the tongue’n’groove spoken word series came to an end. As a grand finale, I recorded my favorite artists, asking them to perform something family-related. Family was on my mind and this CD was the result.

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